A STUDY ON PREVALENCE OF DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY IN CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS

Abstract

Background:  Chronic Alcoholism is rampant in Western Societies. But the alarming feature is that it is also rising in epidemic proportions in developing countries including our country. The main problem with chronic alcoholism is that many of its effects on body systems are usually irreversible. So if we consider the overall effects of alcohol on heart, various studies clearly establish that, whatever the benefits alcohol offer to heart only minimal and  that  too  transient  and  questionable  whereas  the  evils  it  imparts  are unquestionably very high