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International Journal of Clinical Research & Trials Volume 4 (2019), Article ID 4:IJCRT-132, 05 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-8007/2019/132
Scoping Study
Marijuana and Cardiac Arrhythmias: A Scoping Study

Pramod Theetha Kariyanna1, Perry Wengrofsky2, Apoorva Jayarangaiah3, Syed Haseeb2, Louis Salciccioli1, Sudhanva Hegde1, Jonathan D. Marmur1, Yasmin Soliman2, Sama Al-Bayati2 and Samy I. McFarlane2*

1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
2Department of Internal Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
3Department of Internal Medicine, NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Prof. Samy I. McFarlane, Divisions of Cardiovascular Disease,and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York,11203, USA, Tel: 718- 270-6707, Fax: 718-270-4488; E-mail: smcfarlane@downstate.edu
18 December 2018; 20 February 2019; 22 February 2019
Kariyanna PT, Wengrofsky P, Jayarangaiah A, Haseeb S, Salciccioli L, et al. (2019) Marijuana and Cardiac Arrhythmias: A Scoping Study. Int J Clin Res Trials 4: 132. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-8007/2019/132
This work is supported, in part, by the efforts of Dr. Moro O. Salifu M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.A.C.P., Professor and Chairman of Medicine through NIH Grant number S21MD012474.

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