The Nexus of Drug Abuse and Cardiovascular Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2018) | Viewed by 11724
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Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on the nexus of drug abuse and cardiovascular disease in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for people of most ethnicities in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, and whites. In 2011, in the United States, it killed nearly 787,000 people. The short- and long-term, direct and indirect effects of drug abuse often depend on the specific drug or drugs used, how they are taken, how much is taken, the person's health, and other factors. Given, the growing rise of both illict and prescription drugs and cardiovascular being the number killer in the US, it is important to have a “Call to Action” in examing the association between drug use and cardiovascular disease. Researchers have found that most drugs can have adverse cardiovascular effects, ranging from abnormal heart rate to heart attack. Hence, it might be time, to assess drug abuse as a potential emerging risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Drug use can have a wide range of short- and long-term, direct and indirect effects. These effects often depend on the specific drug or drugs used, how they are taken, how much is taken, the person's health, and other factors. Short-term effects can range from changes in appetite, wakefulness, heart rate, blood pressure, and/or mood to heart attack, stroke, psychosis, overdose, and even death. These health effects may occur after just one use.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to the impacts of drug or substance abuse on cardiovascular health. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
Dr. Daniel F. Sarpong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cardiovascular events
- Coronary Health Disease
- Heart Failure
- Stroke
- Arrhythmia
- Atherosclerosis
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Heart Disease
- Modifiable Risk Factor
- Non-Modifiable Risk Factor
- Emerging Risk Factors
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Inflammation
- Crack/Cocaine
- Heroin
- Inhalants
- Marijuana
- Methamphetamine
- Prescription stimulants
- Steroids (appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs)
- Synthetic cannabinoids and cathinones
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