HEPATITIS AMONG AMERICAN OCCUPATION TROOPS IN GERMANY: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO INTERIM ALCOHOL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Authors: Horace T. Gardner, Randolph A. Rovelstad, Douglas J. Moore, Franklin A. Streitfeld, Marjorie Knowlton
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Article1 May 1949HEPATITIS AMONG AMERICAN OCCUPATION TROOPS IN GERMANY: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO INTERIM ALCOHOL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITYHORACE T. GARDNER, M.D., RANDOLPH A. ROVELSTAD, DOUGLAS J. MOORE, FRANKLIN A. STREITFELD, MARJORIE KNOWLTON, B.A.HORACE T. GARDNER, M.D., RANDOLPH A. ROVELSTAD, DOUGLAS J. MOORE, FRANKLIN A. STREITFELD, MARJORIE KNOWLTON, B.A.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-30-5-1009 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe relationship of alcoholism to the development of cirrhosis of the liver has been a subject of investigation and controversy for many years.1-8More recently, the relation of antecedent attacks of acute infectious hepatitis to the later development of cirrhosis and the immediate progression of some cases of chronic hepatitis into cirrhosis has received attention.9, 10, 11Because of the obscurity of this relationship, and the suspicion that the possible hepatotoxic effect of alcohol might be enhanced in an already damaged liver, and since it has been frequently stated in the literature that alcohol may be a factor in precipitating...Bibliography1. BOLESCREWDUNBAR RSRSW: Alcoholic cirrhosis, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1947, cxxxiv, 670-673. 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C.†Now at the Section of Preventive Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.‡Now Fellow in Medicine, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota.The authors are indebted to Dr. John R. Paul and Dr. Gerald Klatskin for assistance in this study. 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