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Inside Health

Liver disease, Hepatitis C

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you believe recent headlines the growing increase in deaths from liver disease is entirely down to excessive alcohol consumption, but it's estimated that two thirds of liver related deaths are caused by other conditions. Dr Mark Porter investigates two liver conditions that do not hit the headlines but could be silently creeping up on millions of people in the UK.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:37.8

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.0

Hello, in today's program we take a closer look at the growing burden of liver disease.

0:44.3

The latest figures show that liver-related deaths have soared over the last decade.

0:48.6

And if you believe the headlines, it's all down to alcohol.

0:51.8

Binge drinking leads to 25% rise in liver disease.

0:56.0

Alcohol linked to 25% increase in deaths.

1:00.1

Alcohol abuse contributes to big rise in deaths from liver disease.

1:04.4

But alcohol isn't the only major threat to our livers.

1:07.9

Two other much lower profile types of liver disease could between them be silently

1:12.9

creeping up on millions of people in the UK. Professor Julia Verne is National Clinical Lead for the

1:19.1

End-of-Life Care Intelligence Network. One of the problems is because we published statistics showing

1:25.2

that a high proportion of people die from alcoholic related liver

1:29.1

disease is that people tend to think everybody who's got liver disease drinks too much.

1:35.3

About a third of people who are dying are dying of alcohol related liver disease, but that

1:40.2

means that two-thirds are dying from other causes. Even more striking is the young age at which people are dying.

1:47.0

90% are under the age of 70.

1:49.3

My name is Yvonne Gray. I'm 57-year-old woman.

1:53.2

I've recently retired from a job which I love daily,

1:56.9

which was being a primary school head teacher.

1:59.5

I've had to retire early because of ill health.

2:02.3

One of the ill health conditions being my liver disease. We've heard a lot about the increase of liver

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