Risk factors of liver disease

Many a time liver disease due to various causes remain silent . Silent inflammation and slow scarring accumulate over years and ultimately surface as liver cirrhosis. In view of this silent slow progression without symptoms, It is worthwhile looking at the risk factors of liver disease.

Factors that may increase your risk of liver disease include:

• Heavy alcohol use
• Injecting drugs using shared needles
• Tattoos or body piercings
• Blood transfusion before 1990
• Exposure to other people’s blood and body fluids
• Unprotected sex
• Exposure to certain chemicals or toxins
• Diabetes
• Obesity