Patients with cirrhosis and impaired cognitive abilities have more motor vehicle accidents
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 12:28
in Health & Medicine
A recent study by Jasmohan Bajaj, and colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University and McGuire VA Medical Centre found that patients with cirrhosis of the liver who developed minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) had a 16% rate of motor vehicle crashes compared to only 4% of those without MHE over one year. The rate of accidents was also significantly higher than the state annual crash rate of 3%-3.3%. Results of the study are available in the October issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases...