Regular cannabis consumption could give you a heart attack, new study reveals

[twigs]

different strains can effect heart rates, like racey sativas, but the increase is the same as the increase in ‘light exercise’ like walking or similar which we’re supposed to do every day to stay healthy  

 

and it’s possible it’s why tokers are generally skinnier 

 

here’s some different studies i post earlier..

 

New York, NY: 

Heart failure patients with a history of cannabis consumption possess lower in-hospital mortality rates than do those with no history of use, according to data published in the journal Cureus.

 

Researchers affiliated with Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in New York City assessed cannabis use and in-patient hospitalization trends for patients with congestive heart failure over a four-year period

 

Authors determined that cannabis users had “less all-cause in-hospital deaths and shorter hospital stays compared to non-users.”

 

Prior observational studies have similarly reported that cannabis use is associated with a decreased risk of in-hospital mortality among patients suffering from heart failure and heart attacks.

 

Other studies have reported that cannabis exposure is associated with greater in-hospital survival rates among patients with cancer, pancreatitis, burn-related injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and other types of severe trauma.

 

Full text of the study, “Congestive heart failure hospitalization trends and cannabis use disorder (2010-2014): National trends and outcomes,” appears in Cureusu

 

 

 

Study: Cumulative Use of Cannabis Not Associated with Heart Abnormalities at Middle Age

 

San Francisco, CA: Neither the current nor the cumulative lifetime use of cannabis is associated with heart abnormalities at middle age, according to clinical data published in the journal Addiction.

 

An international team of researchers from Switzerland and the United States assessed the relationship between cumulative cannabis  use and the prevalence of electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities in a group of 2,585 middle age subjects. Researchers controlled for several potential confounders, including subjects’ use of alcohol and tobacco, as well as blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

 

Investigators reported: “We found no evidence that current or lifetime cumulative use of cannabis  was associated with a higher prevalence or incidence of major or minor ECG abnormalities in this cohort, although major ECG abnormalities seemed to be less frequent in current cannabis users. 

 

Whether participants used cannabis  daily, in the last 30 days or intermittently over a lifetime, cannabis  use was not associated with an increase in prevalent or incident specific ECG abnormalities by middle-age.”

 

They concluded, “Our finding that occasional cannabis was not associated with ECG abnormalities adds to the growing body of evidence that this level of marijuana use and CVD [cardiovascular disease] events and markers of subclinical atherosclerosis are not associated.”

 

Subjects in the study are participants in an ongoing longitudinal trial known as the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) study.

 

Data derived from this cohort has previously reported that the cumulative use of cannabis is not independently associated with an increased risk of either atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) or other adverse cardiovascular events by middle age.

 

Full text of the study, “Association between cannabis use and electrocardiographic abnormalities by middle age,” appears in Addiction

 

norml.com

 

 

Is the cardiovascular system a therapeutic target for cannabidiol?

 

Christopher P Stanley, William H Hind, and Saoirse E O'Sullivan

 

Additional article information

 

Abstract

Cannabidiol (CBD) has beneficial effects in disorders as wide ranging as diabetes, Huntington's disease, cancer and colitis. Accumulating evidence now also suggests that CBD is beneficial in the cardiovascular system.

 

CBD has direct actions on isolated arteries, causing both acute and time-dependent vasorelaxation. In vitro incubation with CBD enhances the vasorelaxant responses in animal models of impaired endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation.

 

CBD protects against the vascular damage caused by a high glucose environment, inflammation or the induction of type 2 diabetes in animal models and reduces the vascular hyperpermeability associated with such environments.

 

A common theme throughout these studies is the anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effect of CBD. In the heart, in vivo CBD treatment protects against ischaemia-reperfusion damage and against cardiomyopathy associated with diabetes. Similarly, in a different model of ischaemia-reperfusion, CBD has been shown to reduce infarct size and increase blood flow in animal models of stroke, sensitive to 5HT1A receptor antagonism.

 

Although acute or chronic CBD treatment seems to have little effect on haemodynamics, CBD reduces the cardiovascular response to models of stress, applied either systemically or intracranially, inhibited by a 5HT1A receptor antagonist.

 

In blood, CBD influences the survival and death of white blood cells, white blood cell migration and platelet aggregation.

 

Taken together, these preclinical data appear to support a positive role for CBD treatment in the heart, and in peripheral and cerebral vasculature.

 

However, further work is required to strengthen this hypothesis, establish mechanisms of action and whether similar responses to CBD would be observed in humans

 

Edited February 27, 2023 by twigs
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[SeaJay]

I dunno, hard to argue against scientific facts. I am, of course, assuming they aren't being deceitful and the tests are rigorous to a fault. And if that's the case, then smoking/eating weed carries a pretty significant risk. 

[Hashcity]

Working too hard and stressing out your body can give you a heart attack but no one says, stop working too hard 

 

[biby94g]

The only attack we going to get is a paranoia attack

[Clean Green]

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Ishan-Paranjpe-2125802274

 

Worth a look through the other studies he is behind. Not drawing any conclusions, but looking at the list here, there seems to be a lot of COVID focus as well.  Does seem to be a definite trend in the media currently of publishing 'causes' of sudden increase in heart conditions. 

[AnonyMice]

On 26/02/2023 at 2:45 PM, Simple Jack said:

7.4 percent 16 to 59 year-olds blazing it in the last year.

Meanwhile, decriminalisation in many states means around 18 percent of adults in the US use the drug each year.

This is also incorrect surely

[AnonyMice]

On 02/04/2023 at 7:10 AM, biby94g said:

The only attack we going to get is a paranoia attack

 

An attack of legislation.. don’t think we’d be paranoid if legal 

[audioaddict]

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Scientists would not expect the same effects using CBD (cannabidiol).

 

 

Interesting that!

 

Seemingly cautious about whose (:cough: vape industry) toes they go stepping on.

Fair and balanced reporting, I see!

 

[gb1]

fuck 

the stuff does the EXACT OPPOSITE

 

load of crap this write up.