Psychotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Is Associated With Reduced Risk of Incident Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is a devastating complication of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Once it develops, ALD is exceedingly difficult to treat; it therefore is critical to identify ways to prevent ALD. By treating the causes of increased alcohol consumption, psychotherapy may offer prophylactic benefit against the development of ALD for patients with AUD.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, we used International Classification of Diseases, 9th and 10th revision, codes to identify 9635 patients with AUD in the Mass General Brigham Biobank. The mean follow-up period from AUD diagnosis was 9.2 years. We used Cox regression models to generate hazard ratios (HR) for the development of ALD given the receipt or nonreceipt of psychotherapy, adj

SUBMITTER: Vannier AGL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9918606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature