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pyburn
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 Posted: 08/31/05 - 02:00 Post subject: Cocaine / Heart Murmer |
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Hello. I'm 27 year old and I have some questions for people who maybe know a bit more about this than I do.
Today I have watched on TV some facts about cocaine side effects on children’s brain, emotions and some effects on the body.
I have understood how it can damage liver because it is detoxicated in liver but I don’t understand how it can affect heart.
Some cardiologists even claimed that cocaine can leave great effects on heart and cause some heart murmurs normally seen in much older people. Don’t get me wrong- I'm not planning to become a junkie but I would like to know more about this particular problem!
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bocanegra
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| Posted: 09/24/05 - 13:19 Post subject: |
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Hi. I'm 18 year old and recently we did some research in school about cocaine and his side effects on people.
Cocaine is very strong and addictive drug that can be found in both a powder form called -cocaine and crystal form called-crack.
It leaves side effects on almost every structure in the body causing the eyes, the throat, the lungs, blood vessels, the bladder, body weight and especially on heart. Constricting blood vessels it can cause increase of blood pressure and increased heart rate called tachycardia.
Heart murmurs, unusual sounds caused by irregular flowing through the chambers of the heart, is direct consequence of heart defect provoked by cocaine.
This may trigger heart attack, heart failure, irregular heart beat and sudden death.
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| Posted: 04/18/08 - 19:25 Post subject: Heart Murmur |
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| A heart murmur is, is in my case, a birth problem. People are born with a hole in the heart which usually closes after birth. I never heard of a MURMUR caused by cocaine though it is possible. My parents NEVER did drugs nor drank and the down side of a murmur is infections. If you get an infection and it enters the blood stream it can settle at the murmur causing the heart many problems..Hope I cleared this up about murmurs. |
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