«In addition, primary - care physicians in the community will want to screen regularly for the presence and extent of alcohol drinking, as well as the potential contributing factors of obesity and ethnicity as high risk factors for
the development of alcoholic liver disease in their high alcohol - consuming patients.»
Alcohol can have a strong impact on the production
of oxidative stress, because it is not metabolized in the
liver — leading to
alcoholic liver disease.6, 7 The
development of oxidative stress is also related to smoking, which suppresses the immune response and damages lung function.8 What may seem like a surprising factor is the use
of pharmaceutical drugs and radiation.