Khat use: History and heart failure

Oman Medical Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 77-82

  El Menyar, Ayman ^a,b,c   Mekkodathil, Ahammed ^c   Al Thani, Hassan ^c   Al Motarreb, Ahmed ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^b Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital   (Egypt)

^c HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^d SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Catha; Cathinone; Coronary disease; Heart failure; Myocardium; Yemen

Indexed keywords

CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT; CATHINONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHA EDULIS; CORONARY ARTERY CONSTRICTION; DRUG ABUSE; EUPHORIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERTENSION; INTRINSIC SYMPATHOMIMETIC ACTIVITY; INTROSPECTION; MASTICATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NONHUMAN; RESTLESSNESS; YEMENI;

EID: 84926443566     PISSN: 1999768X     EISSN: 20705204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5001/omj.2015.18     Document Type: Article

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