{"id":151654,"date":"2022-12-02T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/prevalence-of-meth-heart-failure-now-seen-in-a-wide-range-of-socioeconomic-and-racial-groups"},"modified":"2022-12-02T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T07:23:10","slug":"prevalence-of-meth-heart-failure-now-seen-in-a-wide-range-of-socioeconomic-and-racial-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/prevalence-of-meth-heart-failure-now-seen-in-a-wide-range-of-socioeconomic-and-racial-groups","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of \u2018meth\u2019 heart failure now seen in a wide range of socioeconomic and racial groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prevalence-of-meth-heart-failure-now-seen-in-a-wide-range-of-socioeconomic-and-racial-groups2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rates of heart failure associated with the growing illicit use of the stimulant drug methamphetamine, or meth for short, are rising worldwide and now affect a wide range of socio-economic and racial groups, finds a review of the available evidence, published online in the journal <i>Heart<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Meth heart failure is also more severe than that experienced by those who don\u2019t use the drug, and warrants increased public awareness and availability of treatment for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/meth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">meth<\/a> addiction to stem the rising tide of those affected, urge the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously published research shows that use of the drug, also popularly known as \u201ccrystal meth,\u201d \u201cice\u201d and \u201cspeed,\u201d is associated with serious health problems, including high blood pressure, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+attack\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart attack<\/a>, stroke, and even sudden death. But there are no comprehensive systematic reviews of published research on meth use and heart failure, and this prompted a team of U.S. and Canadian researchers to try to bridge this knowledge gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rates of heart failure associated with the growing illicit use of the stimulant drug methamphetamine, or meth for short, are rising worldwide and now affect a wide range of socio-economic and racial groups, finds a review of the available evidence, published online in the journal Heart. Meth heart failure is also more severe than that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}