Key result
Rising injection drug use links to infective endocarditis mortality without quantitative evidence.
Observational
Deaths from opioid abuse have increased markedly among an otherwise young and healthy population. 1 Approximately a million people used heroin in the United States in 2016, 2 times more than the number who used heroin in the entire period between 2002 and 2013. 2 Because people who inject drugs (PWID) are at risk for bacteremia, we hypothesized that their mortality from infective endocarditis has increased.
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Njoroge et al. (2018) conducted an observational in Infective endocarditis. Injection drug use was evaluated on Mortality from infective endocarditis. The abstract hypothesizes an association between rising injection drug use and infective endocarditis mortality, but reports no quantitative findings or study results.
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