In this retrospective study of 164 patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis, we find that the mean absolute monocyte count is 0.95 thousand cells/L, which is significantly higher than the upper limit of normal (0.80 thousand cells/μL) ( < 0.0001). Monocyte count is correlated with disease severity as measured by MELD score ( = 0.400,  < 0.0001) and Maddrey discriminant function ( = 0.330,  < 0.0001).

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