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Liver Disease Hits Young Drinkers
25 January 2011
The number of young drinkers ending up in hospital with a serious liver problem has risen by more than 50% in the last decade, NHS figures show.
351 people aged 30 and under were admitted to an English hospital with alcohol related liver disease in 2009/10, up from 230 in 2000/01.
Dr Jonathan Mitchell, a specialist, said people who work with alcohol saw the stats as "a gross underestimate".