Are HLA antigens important in the development of alcohol-induced liver disease?
- 21 August 1982
- Vol. 285 (6341) , 533-534
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.285.6341.533
Abstract
The prevalences of 10 HLA-A and 16 HLA-B antigens were determined in 50 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and 120 alcoholic patients without cirrhosis and compared with those in a control group of 550 healthy subjects from the same geographical area. B40 was absent in the patients with cirrhosis but was found in 18 (15%) of the patients without cirrhosis (p = 0.0087). No other association was noted. It is concluded that there is no good evidence to date of an association between HLA antigen state and susceptibility to alcohol-induced cirrhosis.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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