Folate, thiamin and Choose...Vitamin KVitamin DVitamin AVitamin B6 are the vitamins most often affected by alcoholism. Thiamin deficiency contributes to the classic conditions of alcoholism such as the brain damage of Wernicke-Korsakoff. Magnesium deficiency due to alcoholism may cause Choose...small skin hemorrhagesvomitingdiarrheashaking. Unless there is bleeding an alcoholics Choose...ironmagnesiumcalciumVitamin K levels tend to be higher than normal in the blood and liver. Copper and Choose...iodinephosphorusseleniumzinc may be elevated during advanced stages of alcoholism.

Large amounts of alcohol in the blood has the effect of raising Choose...triglycerideblood sugarLDLhomocysteine levels. When chronic heavy drinkers eat a normal diet they Choose...lose weightgain weighttheir weight stays the sameit depends on the type of alcohol normally consumed.