{"id":28151,"date":"2023-07-14T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=28151"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T23:00:05","slug":"sharp-rise-in-severe-alcohol-related-liver-injury-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/14\/sharp-rise-in-severe-alcohol-related-liver-injury-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Rise in Severe, Alcohol-Related Liver Injury during Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\">A boom in alcohol sales during the pandemic appears to have had dire consequences for some as hospital admissions for alcohol-related hepatitis, a life-threatening liver inflammation, increased dramatically, according to a study of national hospitalization data led by Dr. Kris Kowdley, professor at the College of Medicine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta \" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2023\/07\/10\/sharp-rise-in-severe-alcohol-related-liver-injury-during-pandemic\/\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--size-small\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tRead WSU Insider Article\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wsu-font-size--xxmedium wp-block-heading\">In Other Media Coverage:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/10\/alcohol-induced-liver-disease-spiked-during-covid-19-pandemic\/\">The New York Post<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/transition.meltwater.com\/paywall\/redirect\/KMv6hPMEuLpUH4iW984t33USHJ0\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcrightnow.com\/news\/wsu-study-alcohol-related-liver-illnesses-rose-during-pandemic\/article_66b5979c-1f55-11ee-a91f-b7c713066b6d.html\">NBC Right Now<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/alcohol-related-hepatitis-liver-disease-covid-19-2943842\/\">Futurity.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2023\/jul\/17\/as-heavy-drinking-rose-during-the-covid-19-pandemi\/\">The Spokesman-Review<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boom in alcohol sales during the pandemic appears to have had dire consequences for some as hospital admissions for alcohol-related hepatitis, a life-threatening liver inflammation, increased dramatically, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34189,"featured_media":28153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28181,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151\/revisions\/28181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28151"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=28151"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=28151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}