Thiamine deficiency (medical condition): Dietary deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine).
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Thiamine deficiency: 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.
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Thiamine deficiency: 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).
Source: MeSH 2007
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Thiamine deficiency (medical condition): See Thiamine deficiency (disease information).
»Introduction: Thiamine deficiency
»Symptoms of Thiamine deficiency
»Causes of Thiamine deficiency
»Treatments for Thiamine deficiency
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