Risky Habits Chewing Khat Leaves Heart Deaths

Khat or qat (Catha edulis) is a flowering plant from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. In the Arab and African communities, chewing handwriting has become a social habit for thousands of years ago.

A recent study showed that heart disease patients who chew fresh leaves of handwriting has a higher risk of stroke, heart failure, until the end of death than those not consuming handwriting.

The researchers said that chewing habits handwriting have spread from the Middle East to Western Europe and the United States. where this practice has been deemed illegal. To date, there are nearly 20 million people who use handwriting all over the world.

Khat has a stimulant effect similar to amphetamines and cocaine. These ingredients can cause feelings of euphoria, hyperactivity, restlessness, loss of appetite, and weight loss.

U.S. national drug intelligence center or the National Drug Intelligence Center said that the sellers of East Africa and Yemen distribute handwriting in the United States. The agency also seized various types of handwriting dry.

In a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers followed more than 7,000 people with heart disease in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen for a year.

Nineteen percent of participants using handwriting. Users of handwriting as a whole has lower levels of diabetes and high blood pressure, classical factor triggers heart attacks and strokes.

The results reported by WebMD, Tuesday (12/13/2011) showed that compared to non-users of handwriting, people who chew handwriting is likely to have complications such as stroke, heart failure, or death within one year.

For example, a user handwriting is hospitalized because of heart disease (heart attack or chest pain) had a mortality rate of 7.5% in hospitals compared with 3.8% in non-users handwriting. The death rate in one year nearly 19% among users of handwriting, higher when compared to as much as nearly 11% among non-users.

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