DALLAS, April 29, 2026 - Methamphetamine (meth) use accounted for nearly 15% of heart attacks for a decade in a northern California study, published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association , an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. "Even though meth users were generally younger and didn't have typical cardiovascular disease-related conditions like high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes or obesity, they were twice as likely to die after a heart attack when compared to non-users," said study author Susan Zhao, M.D., staff cardiologist and medical director of the Coronary Care Unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California, and an associate clinical professor of medicine (affiliated) at Stanford School of Medicine.
AHA News (American Heart Association) published a clinical update in Cardiology on 29 Apr 2026.
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