Exploring Alcohol’s Effects on Liver Function
more than 200 years ago (Smart and Mann 1992). Long-term heavy alco-hol use is the most prevalent single cause of illness and death from liver disease in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics 1994). The liver is particularly susceptible to alcohol-related injury because it is the primary site of alcohol metabolism.
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