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Can thiamine vitamin b1 affect your heart rate?

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Dr. Rebecca Gliksmananswered

Internal Medicine 40 years experience

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/thiamine-deficiency-symptoms#8-symptoms https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/thiamin-healthprofessional/ Thiamine deficiency can cause heart failure and rapid heart rate.

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Answered Mar 02, 2022

Dr. Mushahid Farooqianswered

Family Medicine 27 years experience

Taking Vitamin B1(Thiamine) supplement dose not cause any heart related adverse reaction, if that is your question? But Thiamine deficiency in the diet can cause two clinical conditions 1)Beriberi (In kids and in adults) and 2)Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome. Beriberi in adults especially Wet Beriberi can cause Cardiomegaly, Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, Peripheral Edema and Tachycardia.

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