Health
Immediate effects:
- increased heart rate, blood pressure
- euphoria
- hyperactivity
- decreased appetite
Long-term effects:
- depression
- sometimes hallucinations
- delayed response inhibition
- increased risk of myocardial infarction
- psychosis in extreme cases in the genetically predisposed
- oral cancer
Indeterminate effects:
- death and stroke following acute coronary syndrome (either from impaired insight into symptoms by the khat chewer, delay to care, or poorly understood pathophysiological mechanisms)
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