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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (14507)	6/12/2001 4:55:18 PM
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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (14507)	6/12/2001 4:55:43 PM
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MARIJUANA AFTER AGE 45 HARDER ON HEART THAN SEX 2001-06-12 14:25 (New York) New York (dpa) - Smoking pot after age 45 puts more stress on the heart than strenuous sex, leading to a five-fold increase in the likelihood of a heart attack for about an hour afterwards, Canadian and U.S. scientists said in media reports Tuesday. They recommended that people older than 45 avoid marijuana, the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto reported. ``That's a good age to give it up,'' Narold Kalant, professor at the University of Toronto, was quoted as saying. Marijuana use in the over-45 age group has been on the increase in the over-45 age group, risky behaviour because it coincides with the climbing likelihood of a heart attack, said Murray Mittelman, director of the cardiology department at Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston. The study was based on surveys and physical examinations of 4,000 heart attack survivors, including 124 regular marijuana users. Marijuana causes the heart to beat up to twice as fast as normal, and the blood pressure to rise. Younger hearts are less open to damage because they are stronger, the study said. Several of the heart attack patients said they had both smoked dope and had sex before they were stricken. But the numberr was too small to prove that a combination of sex and drugs increases the heart attack risk. Mittelman said that marijuana is less dangerous than cocaine, which can raise the likelihood of a heart attack up to 25 times that of normal. dpa tb pr