Marijuana Associated with Three-Fold Risk of Death from Hypertension
“Steps are being taken towards legalisation and decriminalisation of marijuana in the United States, and rates of recreational marijuana use may increase substantially as a result,” said lead author Barbara A Yankey, a PhD student in the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, US. “However, there is little research on the impact of marijuana use on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality.”
In the absence of longitudinal data on marijuana use, the researchers designed a retrospective follow-up study of NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) participants aged 20 years and above. In 2005–2006, participants were asked if they had ever used marijuana. Those who answered “yes” were considered marijuana users. Participants reported the age when they first tried marijuana and this was subtracted from their current age to calculate the duration of use.
Information on marijuana use was merged with mortality data in 2011 from the National Centre for Health Statistics. The researchers estimated the associations of marijuana use, and duration of use, with death from hypertension, heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease, controlling for cigarette use and demographic variables including sex, age, and ethnicity. Death from hypertension included multiple causes such as primary hypertension and hypertensive renal disease.
Marijuana users had a higher risk of dying from hypertension. Compared to non-users, marijuana users had a 3.42-times higher risk of death from hypertension and a 1.04 greater risk for each year of use. There was no association between marijuana use and death from heart disease or cerebrovascular disease.
Ms Yankey said: “We found that marijuana users had a greater than three-fold risk of death from hypertension and the risk increased with each additional year of use.”
Ms Yankey pointed out that there were limitations to the way marijuana use was estimated. For example, it cannot be certain that participants used marijuana continuously since they first tried it.
She said: “Our results suggest a possible risk of hypertension mortality from marijuana use. This is not surprising since marijuana is known to have a number of effects on the cardiovascular system. Marijuana stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, leading to increases in heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen demand. Emergency rooms have reported cases of angina and heart attacks after marijuana use.”
The authors stated that the cardiovascular risk associated with marijuana use may be greater than the cardiovascular risk already established for cigarette smoking.
“We found higher estimated cardiovascular risks associated with marijuana use than cigarette smoking,” said Ms Yankey. “This indicates that marijuana use may carry even heavier consequences on the cardiovascular system than that already established for cigarette smoking. However, the number of smokers in our study was small and this needs to be examined in a larger study.”
“Needless to say, the detrimental effects of marijuana on brain function far exceed that of cigarette smoking,” she added.
Ms Yankey said it was crucial to understand the effects of marijuana on health so that policy makers and individuals could make informed decisions.
She said: “Support for liberal marijuana use is partly due to claims that it is beneficial and possibly not harmful to health. With the impending increase in recreational marijuana use it is important to establish whether any health benefits outweigh the potential health, social and economic risks. If marijuana use is implicated in cardiovascular diseases and deaths, then it rests on the health community and policy makers to protect the public.”Contacts and sources:
European Society of CardiologyCitation: Yankey BA, et al. Effect of marijuana use on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality: A study using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey linked mortality file. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2017. DOI: 10.1177/2047487317723212
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What an absolute crock of unsubstantiated bull pucky. There have been more studies demonstrating the health benefits of marijuana. One study conducted by a bias organization is not science. The study was conducted by those with ties to an industry that stands to loose billions in profits when people rely on natural remedy. They would prefer we all rely on the poisons the pharmaceutical industry concocts or crackpot medicine where doctors are the third leading cause of premature death in the US.
A good example is Staten drugs for cholesterol. The cure is worse than the disease. Talk about shorting your lifespan. Fact is, by doubling your intake of omega three you better accomplish the objective of reducing cholesterol and without all the adverse side effects. STOP LISTENING TO CORPORATIONS. The industry is committed to pursuing their own profit and business interests, they have no intention of ever telling you the truth. If you believe otherwise you’re a fool!
Deputy Dawg
It is wonderfull to read such cock and bull stories that CIA , FBI and the other alpahabet soup Agencies push in order to keep up their scheme to forbid the use of the most beneficial plant that was given to humanity.
You will only get these readings from MONSANTO – BEYER STRAINS OF GMO SEEDS TO PLANTS. I SAID A YEAR AGO SOROS IS TRYING TO POISON SMOKERS. 6 MTHS AGO American weed smokers were ending up hospitalising themselves over lung and stomach pains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBMwPcRbVE
This is called the correlative, logical fallacy.
People at risk for hypertension are using marijuana to de-stress.
Jean Nicot, of nicotine infamy, used tobacco, as a medicine, to cure cancer. Some people are craving a potent anti-inflammatory, which so happens to affect glucose metabolism (another theoretical cause of cancer.)
You pay these same people, for positivity (rather than moral paranoia), and they’ll say the same substances will cause a golden age. They don’t have any biases, either way.
But that means it’s diabetic or more precise pancreas related and a majority of diabetes patients are more prone to cancer? Interesting but I’d say kidney sufferers and alcaholics might be more at risk being the kidney filters all including the cells… ?I’m no doctor but there’s always an article saying how baking soda cures it (?) sherbet is the bomb tho
I could almost see it, but it works like this:
Some people, shouldn’t smoke marijuana, much like a diabetic shouldn’t eat a whole birthday cake, and a fat dude shouldn’t get the triple whopper.
For some people, weed doesn’t calm them down.
I know 3 people that used to smoke weed, but started to get panic attacks from it.
I once had to goto my brothers house at midnight, cause he was “freaking out”.
Keep in mind this isnt normal, but for some people, it seems to start to happen.
When that starts to happen, what do you do? The answer is easy.
Stop smoking weed.
I’ve smoked marijuana for decades, my work requires annual physicals, my blood pressure is low, and when I’m stressed, a couple tokes off the bong, or a marijuana edible, and I’m chill as hell, and ready to sit around and do whatever.
But that’s not true for everyone.
So back to the headline:
“Marijuana Associated with Three-Fold Risk of Death from Hypertension”
Sounds scary right?
Look up how many ways alcohol can kill you, and keep in mind, almost every adult around you, partakes in that FREQUENTLY.
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Can we believe this, it seems studies find the results that financially mirror what the people that pay for it want. Scientists are no longer credible. Let’s go with what we know, hemp cures many things. There is an agenda to keep us from using it.
”In the absence of longitudinal data on marijuana use”… What a load of nonsense! WHO made a long term study of cannabis which was not officially published because of ”political reasons”. WHO cannabis report emerged in EU parliament. If substance, even when used in excess daily prolonges ones life expectancy, one might expect studys like this to be relevant only as a symptom of corruption in medical and scientific community. ”911 science at it’s best!” – Buildings do spontaniously self implode…