Aurora, Colorado. – An increasing number of young Americans are drinking your way to the list of organs transplantation – especially women.
Alcohol is the main cause of liver disease, according to national health institutes.
Dr. James Burton, a liver transplantation A Colorado expert, he said this was a new and alarming shift. Decades ago, mostly men in their 50s and 60s needed a liver transplant, he noted.
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“We started seeing not only more women but [more] Younger women in the 20s and 30s, “Burton, professor of medicine and gastroenterology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colorado, told Fox News.
“I have never seen young women need liver transplant at that age – and this is not unique to us. This is a problem in all of America,” the doctor added.
Dr. James Burton (picture), a liver transplant expert in Colorado, noted alarming shift in the number of young people who need liver transplant. (Kennedy Hayes/ Fox News)
Some patients who need liver transplantation associated with alcohol are as young as their wounds of the 20th and started alcohol In his teenage years, Burton said.
Alcohol -related liver disease leads to almost 50% of all liver transplant surgery, he noted.
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“There are people who may not drink every day, but on weekends they drink very much – and maybe they have eight to 10 drinks. That’s equally bad,” Burton said.
Things turned over during Covid 19 Locking, he noted, when more people drank excessively at home.
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Plus, Women process alcohol different from men, Burton warned.
Emma Lillibridge, 31, said she never thought she would become the recipient of the liver transplant. The woman in Colorado went to the hospital with the disease and was shocked when she discovered the scope of her health problems, she told Fox News.
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Doctors told Lillibridge that she would need surgery because the consumption of heavy alcohol during the 20s brought to Health failure She noticed her liver.
“I had no idea what I was going into. I went into the hospital thinking I had pneumonia and went with a new liver five weeks later,” Lillibridge said.
Emma Lillibridge (picture), 31, went to the hospital with the disease and was shocked to find that she needed a kidney transplant. (Kennedy Hayes/Fox News)
“I worked at the brewery behind the scenes, as in a real beer house, brewing beer. So, I was surrounded by a tone of men who merely blowing a 24/7 beer,” Lillibridge said.
“So, for me, it was not uncommon during the shift, people walking, saying,” They shot beer with me. “
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When Lillibridge was 30, she was told she needed a transplant to save her life. Now shares her story to help save others.
After receiving a liver transplant surgery 30 years ago, Lillibridge (pictured) shares his story to help save others. (Emma Lillibridge/Fox News)
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“I really don’t think people recognize how normal grave drinking has become in our culture, so they don’t see that they have a problem until they really look at,” she added.
Lillibridge received a liver transplant surgery in October 2023. She told Fox News that she was now sober, healthy and back on her feet. A new job has started and plans to get married soon.
