‘Fake Marijuana’ May Trigger Heart Trouble in Teens - Health News - Health.com: "TUESDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) — Three teenage boys suffered heart attacks after smoking K2, a form of synthetic marijuana, according to a new case report.
During the span of a few weeks last fall, Dr. Colin Kane, a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, was surprised when the teens, all aged 16, were admitted with chest pain. Chest pain — and heart attacks especially — are very unusual in teens, so doctors at first suspected a virus.
But electrocardiograms, which measure the heart’s electrical activity, and blood tests that measure levels of a protein called troponin (high levels are a telltale sign of heart attack), showed that two of the boys had indeed had heart attacks."
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