Smoking Increases Risk of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases...Don't quit smoking for more than 10 years
Jul 17, 2025
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A research team led by Professor Cho Hyun-hyun of the Department of Family Medicine at Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital included this in the international journal `PLoS One' on June 9th in a paper entitled `Asociation between smoking status and non-alcoholic fatty life disease.'
Professor Cho Hyun's team compared the control group of 12,241 adult men who underwent medical examination from January 2018 to December 2019 using data from Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital's health examination center. As a result of the analysis, past smokers had a 1.19 times higher risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver than non-smokers, and smokers had a higher risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver as the amount of smoking increased. People who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 10 to 20 years had a 1.289 times higher risk of developing non-alcoholic fatty liver than non-smokers.
On the other hand, the longer the smoking cessation period, the lower the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver. Those who quit smoking for more than 10 years had a 1.33-fold reduction in the risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver than those who quit for less than 10 years.
Professor Cho Hyun said, `This study once again confirmed the adverse effects of smoking on liver health"We hope that studies showing that smoking cessation has a positive effect on lowering the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will serve as an opportunity for many smokers to decide to quit."
On the other hand, fatty liver is largely divided into alcoholic fatty liver and non-alcoholic fatty liver, and without proper treatment, it can worsen to liver lesions, liver failure, and liver cancer. Non-alcoholic fatty liver refers to a condition in which fat accumulates without hepatitis or excessive drinking, and the number of patients is increasing recently due to obesity-related problems.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
