THE HEARTACHE OF METH
Methamphetamine causes heartache in many ways, including directly affecting the heart muscle.
Heartache on many different levels can be avoided by avoiding methamphetamine. There is no happy ending to any story about meth – so why begin?
Let’s push effective drug treatment and education and spend our money on more interesting studies than the one below –and learn something that many of us don’t already know.
Also, we can all simply agree that meth is bad and begin to spend our money on effective treatment such as the Narconon program
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Here is the study:
“Young patients diagnosed with a disease of the heart muscle called cardiomyopathy had a high incidence of methamphetamine use, reseachers found in a recent study.
Reuters reported Feb. 14 that researchers led by Khung-Keong Yeo of the University of California Davis Medical Center estimated that meth use triples the risk of cardiomyopathy. Yeo and colleagues drew their conclusions from an examination of the medical records of 107 cardiomyopathy patients under age 45.
Yeo said the drug could cause the disease by causing spasms in the heart arteries, by direct toxicity, by elevating blood pressure and heart rate, or by causing hardening of the arteries.”
The study appears in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Medicine.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/meth-use-may-be-related-to.html
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