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Lethal heart condition traced to cocaine use

cocaine use and coronary risk factors. Of the 38 cases found, 37 percent were related to cocaine use. Cocaine users were younger (average age of 41 vs. 59 in non-cocaine users), more likely to be African American, and all smoked cigarettes.

Hypertension had been diagnosed in 79 percent of the cocaine users, 71 percent had documented left ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the heart wall), and at least 64 percent were not taking their prescribed anti-hypertensive medication.

Twenty-nine percent of the cocaine users died in the hospital, which was almost twice the death rate of the non-cocaine users.


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Contact: Carole Bullock
carole.bullock@heart.org
214-706-1279
American Heart Association
11-Mar-2002


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