Alcohol abuse has varied effects on our bodies and chronic drinking can pose major health risks:
- Cardiomyopathy is a major health risk alcohol abusers are likely to suffer. Long-term alcohol use creates damage and weakens the heart's muscular tissue resulting in heart failure. Anemia and bleeding disorders can also result from chronic alcohol abuse.
- Cirrhosis of the liver is a sequel to chronic alcoholism. It is basically a nutritional disease, brought on by inadequate and improper diet coupled with excessive alcoholic intake. In this case the liver is usually swollen and enlarged first but later becomes small and shrunken.
- Several recent studies have examined the health effects of alcohol and for many people, moderate consumption appears beneficial. The largest study to date to look at the relationship between alcohol consumption and mortality found that those who drank one drink a day had a 20% lower death rate from all causes compared to nondrinkers.
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