{"id":254,"date":"2008-02-12T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:24:59","slug":"heavy-drinking-medical-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/topics\/alcohol-and-drug-abuse\/heavy-drinking-medical-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy drinking: medical consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol misuse is associated with multiple neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, endocrine and other medical problems.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackouts (memory impairment for the period of time when the person was drinking heavily but remained awake)<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol-induced persisting amnestic disorder (Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a gross disturbance in the recent memory)<\/li>\n<li>Sleep impairment<\/li>\n<li>Peripheral neuropathy (numbness of hands and feet, tingling, paresthesias)<\/li>\n<li>Cerebellar degeneration (unsteadiness of gait, problems with standing, nystagmus)<\/li>\n<li>Gastritis<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis<\/li>\n<li>Liver cirrhosis<\/li>\n<li>Pancreatitis<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Myocardial infarction<\/li>\n<li>Thrombosis<\/li>\n<li>Hypertension<\/li>\n<li>Hemorrhagic stroke<\/li>\n<li>Cardiomyopathy<\/li>\n<li>Increase in the average size of the red cell (the mean corpuscular volume, MCV)<\/li>\n<li>Impairment in the production and efficiency of blood platelets<\/li>\n<li>Cancers of the head, neck, esophagus, stomach, liver, colon, lungs<\/li>\n<li>Deleterious effects on the developing fetus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Leo Sher, M.D.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol misuse is associated with multiple neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, endocrine and other medical problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-and-drug-abuse","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}