In an extensive study of methamphetamine users, female sex was allied with the occurrence of pulmonary hypertension, while male sex, hypertension, and alcoholism were allied with cardiomyopathy. Equally pulmonary hypertension and cardiomyopathy patients displayed noticeably augmented mortality. Methamphetamine (MA) usage has been linked to both cardiomyopathy (CMP) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
Still, these two conditions are under-studied and a very little amount of information is acknowledged about the resemblances and variances among these conditions concerning risk factors, morbidity, and mortality. Researchers altogether recognized all patients with either an MA-related diagnosis or positive toxicology screen at a large public hospital between 2010 and 2017. MA-PAH was described as an estimated right ventricular systolic pressure > 45 mmHg by transthoracic…
