Posted on 11/07/2023 12:50:33 PM PST by absalom01
Two new preliminary studies on recreational marijuana and health strengthen existing evidence that regular use negatively impacts heart and brain health, according to the American Heart Association.
The first report, drawing on data from a major study involving more than 150,000 people from all walks of American society looking at the relationship between lifestyle, biology and environment, found daily use of marijuana raised the risk of developing heart failure by about one-third compared with non-users.
A research team from Medstar Health, a not-for-profit health provider in the Baltimore-Washington metro area, found that among 156,999 healthy people it followed, those who used marijuana had a 34% higher risk of developing heart failure during the 45 months of the study, compared to those who reported never using marijuana.
This risk was the same regardless of age, sex, or smoking history with the findings of the study -- part of the National Institutes of Health's All of Us research program -- suggesting that coronary artery disease was the pathway through which daily marijuana use may lead to heart failure.
"Prior research shows links between marijuana use and cardiovascular disease like coronary artery disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation, which is known to cause heart failure," said lead study author Yakubu Bene-Alhasan, a resident physician at Medstar Health in Baltimore.
"Our results should encourage more researchers to study the use of marijuana to better understand its health implications, especially on cardiovascular risk," Bene-Alhasan said.
"We want to provide the population with high-quality information on marijuana use and to help inform policy decisions at the state level, to educate patients and to guide health care professionals."
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Somebody better alert Willie Nelson.
Perhaps attributed to making really, really, really bad food choices regularly.
Well, it does tend to make you lazy, and being lazy isn’t great for your heart health.
Impossible. Marijuana is the perfect, magic drug that’s a cure all for everything with no possibility of negative side effects. Or so we’ve been told.
They said the same thing about particulates from candle smoke, camp fires, and gas stoves.
Basically, inhaling anything into your lungs that isn’t regular air is bad for you. At least... long term.
I didn’t agree with smoking regs... don’t agree with dope regs either. It shouldn’t be governments job to protect us from our own stupidity.
We have FAR too many more stupid people now...
Cardiovascular complications induced by cannabis smoking: a case report and review of the literature
In before the drug addict FReepers deny the MJ is anything but a magic weed that doesn’t harm anything.
Ice cube would support that hypothesis.
“Two in the mornin’, got the Fatburger”
Yeah, it was a good day...
well yeah
thats cuz you spend your whole life on the couch
eating cheetos
and there are studies showing that long term use can cause...uh...uh...
what were we talking about?
oh yeah weed!
Is that inhaled pot or gummies?
“They said the same thing about particulates from candle smoke, camp fires, and gas stoves.
Basically, inhaling anything into your lungs that isn’t regular air is bad for you. At least... long term.
I didn’t agree with smoking regs... don’t agree with dope regs either. It shouldn’t be governments job to protect us from our own stupidity.
We have FAR too many more stupid people now...
Best comment of the day!
More folks are eating marijuana in cookies, brownies, and soup these days.
Does the study only involve marijuana SMOKERS?
Doo-ood!
Don’t be silly. Inhaling gummies is HARD!
Pshaw.
The only stupid people I’m seeing here are assholes making claims such as yours.
If the noted study was accurate, I would have died decades ago.
You smoke a lot of weed? I would never have guessed.
Ya. Inhaling smoke and holding it in your lungs for many seconds to increase the high won’t hurt you one bit. It is actually good for you.
That's how I see it. Smoking anything is going to impair your lungs from converting oxygen into your blood. Thus your heart must work harder.
I bet if they checked people who eat gummy's they would find no correlation.
Me, I grew up in 1960s and 70 Los Angeles horrific air pollution so I am a dead man walking anyway.
Yes, and I keep the “vintage” computer systems protecting this country running smoothly as I have been for several decades.
You seem to have spent a lot of time at a University or two...
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