This review provides a summary of the symposium titled “Role of Non-Genetic Risk Factors in Exacerbating Alcohol-Related Organ Damage”, which was held at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism. The goals of the symposium were to provide newer insights into the role of non-genetic factors, including specific external factors, notably infectious agents or lifestyle factors, that synergistically act to exacerbate alcohol pathogenicity to generate more dramatic downstream biological defects. This summary of the symposium will benefit junior/senior basic scientists and clinicians currently investigating/treating alcohol-induced organ pathology, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students and fellows.

本综述提供了在酒精中毒研究学会第 42 届年会上举行的题为“非遗传风险因素在加剧酒精相关器官损伤中的作用”的研讨会的摘要。研讨会的目标是对非遗传因素的作用提供新的见解，包括特定的外部因素，特别是传染源或生活方式因素，这些因素协同作用，加剧酒精致病性，从而产生更严重的下游生物学缺陷。本次研讨会的总结将使目前研究/治疗酒精引起的器官病理学的初级/高级基础科学家和临床医生，以及本科生、研究生和研究生和研究员受益。