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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013 Aug;28(0 1):77–84. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12030

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Natural history of alcoholic liver disease and modifier factors. More than 80–90% of heavy drinkers develop fatty liver, but only up to 20–40% of this population develops more severe forms of alcoholic liver disease (ALD), including fibrosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocarcinoma (HCC). Multiple other risk factors have been proposed to play a role in susceptibility to severe forms of ALD. HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.