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Cocaine use boosts heart-attack risk

Cocaine users' risk of a heart attack is dramatically heightened in the first hour after they take the drug.

References:

Mittleman, M.A., et al. 1999. Triggering of myocardial infarction by cocaine. Circulation 99(June):2737.

Sources:

Murray A. Mittleman
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cardiovascular Division
1 Autumn Street, Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02115

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 23, June 5, 1999, p. 356. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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