Cocaine Induced Heart Failure
Frightening. Cocaine is one of the most common causes of heart attacks among people in their 20s and 30s in the UK. Kelly Anne Brittain was one such fatality.
Ms Brittain, a fit and healthy part-time ski instructor who liked to work hard and play hard, suffered a massive heart attack last July soon after taking cocaine at her home in Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley.
Cocaine is associated with severe cardiovascular complications. From the American Heart Association:
- Chest pain syndromes
- Heart attacks
- Strokes
- Fatal and nonfatal arrhythmias
- Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle)
- Endocarditis (inflammation of the inner lining of the heart)
- Pulmonary edema (eh-DE’mah) (fluid in the lungs)
- Vascular thrombosis (blood clots in blood vessels)
- Dilated cardiomyopathy (an enlarged heart)
Suffice it to say: DON’T DO DRUGS!
For more information on cocaine, visit the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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