Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new analysis of pooled medical data involving 200 million people mostly between the ages of 19 and 59.
"What was particularly striking was that the concerned patients hospitalised for these disorders were young (and thus, not likely to have their clinical features due to tobacco smoking) and with no history of cardiovascular disorder or cardiovascular risk factors," senior author Émilie Jouanjus, an associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Toulouse, France, said in an email.
Compared to non-users, those who used cannabis also had a 29 per cent higher risk for heart attacks and a 20 per cent higher risk for stroke, according to the study published on Tuesday in the journal Heart.
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