{"id":2659,"date":"2020-10-22T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T01:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/how-does-cocaine-affect-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T01:52:47","slug":"how-does-cocaine-affect-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/how-does-cocaine-affect-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"How does cocaine affect the heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cocaine\u2019s effects on the heart can cause both immediate emergencies, such as a heart attack, and long-term damage.<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine\u2019s effects on the heart can cause both immediate emergencies, such as a heart attack, and long-term damage.<\/p>\n<p>Regular, long-term cocaine use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4051909\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significantly increases<\/a>&nbsp;the risk of heart disease. For people with pre-existing heart health problems, even short-term cocaine use may elevate the risk. These risks include\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coronary artery disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Higher blood pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Damage to the structure of the heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heart arrhythmias<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chest pain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congestive heart failure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heart attack and stroke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/cocaine-effects-on-heart?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MNT%20Weekly%20News&amp;utm_content=2020-10-21&amp;utm_country=AU&amp;utm_hcp=no&amp;apid=32370179&amp;utm_term=MNT%20Weekly%20News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For complete article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocaine\u2019s effects on the heart can cause both immediate emergencies, such as a heart attack, and long-term damage. Cocaine\u2019s effects on the heart can cause both immediate emergencies, such as a heart attack, and long-term damage. Regular, long-term cocaine use&nbsp;significantly increases&nbsp;the risk of heart disease. For people with pre-existing heart health problems, even short-term cocaine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalgarno-research-you-can-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}