Thiamine deficiency is known to occur in all of the following except: (A) Food faddist, (B) Homocystinemia, (C) Chronic alcoholic, (D) Chronic hea failure
Answer is B. beriberi, may or may not be associated with hea failure and edema acute pernicious (fulminating) beriberi, in which hea failure and metabolic abnormalities predominate Wernicke encephalopathy is associated especially with alcohol and narcotic abuse ref harper 13th ed page 556