what age does end stage liver disease usually affect?!
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i am doing a report and need to know about end stage liver disease. i need to know who it affects and at what age. also i need to know any cultural backgrounds or socioeconomics that may influence food choices for a person who has end stage liver disease.
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Usually end stage liver disease has a lot of causes to mention: infections (viral, including HAV, HBV, HCV (rarely), HDV, HEV, bacterial, rickettsial, parasitic), drugs and toxins, ischemia (shock), Budd-Chiari syndrome,idiopathic chronic active hepatitis, acute Wilson's disease, microvesicular fat syndromes (Reye's syndrome, acute fatty liver of pregnancy). For all the mentioned diseases, if they are left untreated and not given full attention they will lead to END STAGE LIVER DISEASE. So it purely depends on what age the individual contracted the disease. For instance if that individual took a medication that is toxic to the liver at a very young age,then develop the signs and symptoms of liver pathology and neglect it then there is a likelihood that the individual will further go into complication leading to end stage liver disease. So its important for you to know what is the causes of every disease I mentioned earlier. For that it will give you an idea what are the factors involved leading to it. I hope I have given you enough information and if you have more feel free to ask me. Good Luck.
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This really depends on what causes the disease in the first place. Children as young a 1 year can be at the end state if they have Hepatitis.
Like the previous poster mentioned, it depends on a variety of factors.
As an ER nurse, I see most cases of liver failure coming from alcoholism. Alcoholism affects all socioeconomic brackets.
You can also see it with hep c sufferers.
Basically you'll see the majority of cases coming in on people in their thirties to their sixties.
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