No impact of COVID‐19 epidemic on decompensation of alcoholic liver disease: Results from a single centre in Milan.

Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on alcohol consumption in patients with pre-existing alcohol use disorder. This highlights that, although the impact of Covid-19 on care of patients with liver diseases has been dramatic,5 the impact on morbidity and mortality of liver diseases is heterogeneous. Abbreviations ALD alcoholic liver disease AUD alcohol use disorder ICD International Classification of Disease Code MELD Model for End-stage Liver Disease UK United Kingdom We read with interest the paper by Gonzalez et al.,1 reporting an increase in alcohol-related hepatitis hospital admissions during the Covid pandemia. [Extracted from the article]