Those for atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and heart attack all rose faster after law enacted Legalisation of recreational cannabis in the US is associated with a rise in hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease, finds an analysis of more than 50 million patient discharge records, published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Admissions for atrial
The estimated change in admission rates for each year of legal cannabis sales was statistically significant for atrial fibrillation (just over 2% higher), heart failure (nearly 4% higher), and heart attack (just over 3% higher), after adjusting for potentially influential factors.
This is an observational study, and as such, can’t establish cause and effect, and the researchers acknowledge various limitations to their findings. These include the inability to separate out individual states or look at the method of cannabis use (smoked or not). Nor were they able to account for trends in illegal use.
Yes - and if the study can not establish neither cause nor effect - isn’t the whole study a shot in the dark? The whole title wants you to draw the association that cannabis use is proportional to an increase in cardio vascular issues?
And I suggest the cause is not pinned down to cannabis as the only mitigating factor. I’m skeptical of the conclusion.
Yes - and if the study can not establish neither cause nor effect - isn’t the whole study a shot in the dark? The whole title wants you to draw the association that cannabis use is proportional to an increase in cardio vascular issues?