UNC’s Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD, a fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is lead author of a study indicating that alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) mortality increased from 2017-2020 and accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly all age groups. Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, is senior author.
A study published in the Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal, and led by UNC School of Medicine researchers, found that alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) mortality accelerated during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
“We’ve actually seen for quite some time now that alcohol-associated liver disease mortality has been increasing in the United States,” said Sasha Deutsch-link, MD, study lead author and a fellow in the UNC Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the UNC Department of Medicine. “This trend goes back to 2006, and we have seen a steady increase overtime. In our paper we really wanted to update these trends to see if we were seeing this continued increase.”
The study’s senior author is Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, and co-authors are A. Sidney Barritt IV, MD, MSCR, and Anne Peery, MD, MSCR, all from the UNC Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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