A team of researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom assessed health outcomes in a cohort of nearly 10 million patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
They reported, “Cannabis use was associated with lower risks of cardiogenic shock, acute ischemic stroke, cardiac arrest, PCI [percutaneous coronary intervention] use, and in-hospital mortality.”
The conclusion is consistent with those of other studies finding that heart disease victims with a history of cannabis consumption possess greater in-hospital survival rates compared to controls. Other studies have similarly reported increased in-hospital survival rates among cannabis consumers suffering from cancer, COPD, gastroparesis, pancreatitis, HIV, burn-related injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and various other types of severe trauma.
The study’s authors concluded: “Among patients aged 18–80 years admitted to hospitals with AMI between 2001 and 2020 in the United States, cannabis use was associated with lower risks of complications, … as well as lower in-hospital mortality despite correcting for several confounding factors.
I would hope that age was one of the factors corrected for, because the younger patients will likely be using cannabis at a higher rate than the older ones.
If the majority of your “have used cannabis” group are pulled from patients in their 40s and 50s, for example, you’re probably going to see better outcomes compared to the control.
Weed’s been de facto legal in my neck of the woods for 40 years, and fully legal since 2018, and at 67 years of age I can unreservedly say I’ve consumed more weed in the past 15 years than I did between ages 13 to 30.
Just saying that without a cite, we’re both anecdotal.
Strange, whenever I smoke weed I feel like my heart is gonna burst through my chest
Switch to edibles. Smoking anything will raise your blood pressure and lower your O2 levels, which will make your heart work harder.
It’s just the weed. It makes people’s heart race.
Hell, years ago I read you have a 4x higher chance of having a heart attack for the first hour after smoking weed.
It’s not just smoking, it’s vaping, too, and even edibles.
In my personal experience, the dose matters. If I get super high off of one hit, that’s when my heart races.
Interesting. I would be interested in learning more about this. I’ve always thought weed lowered heart rate and made you slow and groggy.
Definitely not all strains. Some weed makes you very energetic.
My heart rate stays the same but I think it lowers my blood pressure because if I’ve been sitting / squatting on the ground and get up I often almost pass out. This never happens when I’m sober.
what if the key was, instead of panicking like i imagine would be pretty easy, i just go, “man, i must be pretty high rn, lemme relax for a sec…”
Interesting, I recall recently reading that marijuana use is worse for heart attacks.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.123.030178
And another study (can’t find it at the moment) that claimed that there is a noticable increase in your risk of having a heart attack while smoking.
