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).
鈥淐ocaine significantly increases the risk of heart attack in individuals who are
otherwise at low risk,鈥� says Murray Mittleman from the Beth Israel Medical
Center in Boston, who led the study.
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