There are no doping specific side-effects of alcohol abuse known. Biomedical side effects classify only two main options like acute side effects and chronic side effects.
- Acute side effects are…:
…vomiting, inebriation, hyperventilation, alcoholic intoxication, dizziness, limited consciousness, headache, diarrhea, risk of vomiting and aspiration, excitatory state, coma.
- Chronic side effects are…:
…alcoholic hepatitis, limited consciousness, alcoholic intoxication, renal side effects, fatty liver, cirrhosis of the liver, neuronal side effects, risk of apnoea and cardiac arrest.
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Alcohol
Alcohol does not have an ergogenic effect. Long-term alcohol consumption may lead to arterial hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, ischemic heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, stroke and sudden cardiac death. Moderate alcohol consumption is a common cause of secondary hypertension, more often systolic than diastolic. Alcohol use causes increased cardiac sympathetic activity, leading to tachycardia and increasing the risk for ischemic heart disease and atrial, mainly, arrhythmias. However, moderate drinkers, may have low LDL and high HDL levels, which decreases the incidence of coronary atherosclerosis.
