Assertion: cirrhosis | /r/CapableOf | develop in alcohol abusers
Facets:
value: with fatty liver changes
type: OTHER
value: more commonly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Although the short-term prognosis in patients with alcoholic steatosis is excellent, with longer follow-up it has been found that cirrhosis develops more commonly in alcohol abusers with fatty liver changes than in those with normal liver histology.8 Clinical risk factors that predict progression to fibrosis, cirrhosis, or both include severe steatosis, female gender, continued excessive alcohol use, the presence of megamitochondria, mixed macrovesicular-microvesicular steatosis, and perivenular fibrosis on histology.1