title: Excessive beer consumption and beri-beri.
abstract: Alcohol-induced 'wet' or cardiac beri-beri is reported in two middle-aged males who consumed excessive amounts of beer. The high carbohydrate and satiety value of beer together with its low thiamine content places the alcoholic beer drinker at particular risk of thiamine deficiency.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D001602:Beriberi / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012606:Scotland; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000209:etiology; D013831:Thiamine / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D013831:Thiamine