A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of THIAMINE in the diet, characterized by anorexia, irritability, and weight loss. Later, patients experience weakness, peripheral neuropathy, headache, and tachycardia. In addition to being caused by a poor diet, thiamine deficiency in the United States most commonly occurs as a result of alcoholism, since ethanol interferes with thiamine absorption. In countries relying on polished rice as a dietary staple, BERIBERI prevalence is very high. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1171)

Descriptor ID	D013832
MeSH Number(s)	C18.654.521.500.133.699.827
Concept/Terms	Thiamine Deficiency Thiamine Deficiency Deficiency, Thiamine Deficiencies, Thiamine Thiamine Deficiencies

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