BUENOS AIRES, April 4 (UPI) -- Doctors treating former soccer star Diego Maradona say the Argentine player's condition is improving at a Buenos Aires clinic.
The clinic said in a statement Maradona is being treated for acute hepatitis related to alcohol abuse and denied the former soccer player had attempted suicide, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Maradona has previously struggled with cocaine addiction and obesity.
"This was not a suicide attempt," Hector Pezzella, head of the Guemes clinic, said in the BBC report. "There has been good clinical progress.
"What happened was a disorder in compulsive form, in this case due to alcohol."
Pezzella said Maradona, who was reportedly admitted to the clinic against his wishes, was "obeying doctors" and was not in any life-threatening danger. He said the former player had been driven to excessive drinking by a struggle with depression.
