Cocaine link to heart attack bolstered.A person's heart attack risk soars shortly after taking cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in (SN: 6/5/99, p. 356). Researchers at the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. at Buffalo now calculate that roughly one-fourth of nonfatal Adj. 1. nonfatal - not bringing death; "nonfatal heart attack" fatal - bringing death heart attacks among people ages 18 to 45 result from the drug. Using data collected between 1988 and 1994 in a national survey, physician Adrian I Adrian I, pope Adrian I, d. 795, pope (772–95), a Roman; successor of Stephen IV. At Adrian's urging, Charlemagne crossed the Alps and defeated the Lombard king, Desiderius, who had annexed papal territory. . Qureshi and his colleagues found that of 10,085 people, 532 used cocaine regularly. People using the drug were roughly seven times more likely to have a nonfatal heart attack than nonusers were. Less than 10 percent of people in this age group who have a heart attack die from it. The study will appear in an upcoming CIRCULATION. |
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