For an hour after taking cocaine, the risk of suffering a heart attack
increases 24-fold, a new study suggests (Circulation, vol 99, p 2737).
“Cocaine significantly increases the risk of heart attack in individuals who are
otherwise at low risk,” says Murray Mittleman from the Beth Israel Medical
Center in Boston, who led the study.
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