Heavy drinking health risks at a glance (to be) _________Liver damage Osteoporosis Pancreatitis Shrivelled [i] sex organs Heart disease Stroke Dementia/ brain damage Damage to unborn child Increased risks of some types of cancer Too much alcohol can (to irritate) ______________ the stomach, leading to sickness and nausea, and can (to lead) ______________ to temporary impotence in men. Alcohol (to have) ___________ a dehydrating effect, and the traditional hangover (to arrive) ____________ partly as a result. Long term drinkers can (to suffer) __________ liver damage, as the liver (to be) ______ the organ that (to process) ______________ the alcohol and (to remove) ___________ it from the body. There (to be) _____ three types of damage - fatty liver, in which fat (to deposit) in the liver, impairing its function, alcohol hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver which can (to cause) ___________ severe symptoms and (to lead) ___________ in some cases to alcoholic cirrhosis, which can eventually (to cause) _______________ liver failure if the drinker (not to stop) _________________. The first two stages (to be) __________ usually reversible, whereas cirrhosis (to have) _______ no cure. Heavy drinkers can (to suffer) __________ from chronic gastritis - essentially a daily recurrence of hangover style nausea and sickness. They can also (to suffer) ____________ damage to the oesophagus. Pancreatitis (to be) _____ a common problem in heavy drinkers - this (to be) _____ an extremely painful condition which (to be) _____ hard to treat, and sometimes fatal. Brain damage (to be) _____ also possible in some cases - alcoholic dementia (to find) ______ often ___________ in very long-term drinkers.
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