painless test that measures your heart’s electrical activity. It’s used to test for potentially dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, and other heart problems. But experts don’t yet fully understand the links between stimulant use and heart health, and it’s not clear that stimula...
painless test that measures your heart’s electrical activity. It’s used to test for potentially dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, and other heart problems. But experts don’t yet fully understand the links between stimulant use and heart health, and it’s not clear that stimula...
but both are important to test for and should be in the optimal ranges. If the T4 is optimal, but the T3 is out of the optimal range, you know that your body is not making enough T3 hormone from the T4. It is important to monitor ...
A more recent meta-analysis of 10 studies15 showed a positive association between ADHD medications and risk of sudden death or arrhythmia but not for stroke, myocardial infarction, or all-cause mortality. However, it had several methodology limitations (eg, not preregistered, narrow outcome ...
with electronic measures of actual adherence [27]. However, such measures have been used in scientific research in peer reviewed academic journals and have received positive evaluations within reviews where the conclusion has been that no one method should be considered as the “gold standard” [11...
The only documented case found through our search indicates that their use might have contributed to death, however piperazines were consumed in association with amphetamines, MDMA, MDA and THC. Due to the lack of data on the incarcerated population, no specific comparisons can be drawn with the...
However, it is noteworthy that the NICE recommendations were informed not only by empirical evidence but also by considerations on costs and licence and flexibility of formulations. Although post-hoc analyses did indicate differences between the amphetamine prodrug lisdexamfetamine and other amphetamines, ...
(2012) examined the long-term cardiovascular effects of stimulant treatments (MPH or amphetamines) in children with ADHD over a period of 10 years. There was evidence of increased heart rate after 3- and 8-years of treatment, suggesting that continued treatment with stimulants is accompanied by...
They also questioned the accuracy of ECGs as a general screening tool, particularly highlighting the risk of a high number of false positive results. Furthermore, since Bazett first proposed a QTc correction formula in 1920 (QTc = QT/√RR) [12], many variations of this formula have become ...