Understanding How Can Medication Cause Chest Pain?
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While many chest pain episodes are unrelated to medication, adverse drug events related to chest pain or myocardial infarction accounted for 1.1% of reports to the Netherlands Centre for Monitoring of Adverse Reactions to Drugs in a 20-year period. Several medications, both prescription and illicit, have the potential to cause chest pain through a variety of mechanisms that impact the heart, esophagus, or blood vessels.
