Re: PSC, UC, & Alcohol/study

[Guest guest]

Interesting that it also shows CA-19-9 as a good indicator of CCA. It

also does not mention the use of Urso, which may not have been in

extensive use in the 7 years preceding the publish date.

I confess I'm pretty inept at statistics. Can you interpret " (odds

ratio: 2.95; 95% CI: 1.04-8.3) " ? I recognize CI as confidence

interval, but am unfamiliar with the rest.

I'll have to study

http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/glossary/outputs.html a bit to

make sense of it.

Arne

This paper indicates that alcohol consumption may significantly

increase the risk of cholangiocarcinoma in PSC:

Hepatology 2000 Jan;31(1):7-11.