Other research showed that if you adjust for those that are smoking also the risk from marijuana disappears. I'd say this was bad research.
So fucking what? The uses for stroke rehabilitation would likely be short-term. But our stupid federal legislators will glom onto anything negative about marijuana and not even approve research proving the positives. With this mindset aspirin, alcohol and warfarin would have never been approved. I would suggest moving to one of the legal states or countries.
My 13 reasons for marijuana use post-stroke.
But don't listen to me, I have absolutely no medical training, you don't need medical training to read and understand research or its' good points on your own.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-marijuana-hypertension-idUSKBN1AP0JS
LONDON
(Reuters) - People who smoke marijuana have a three times greater risk
of dying from hypertension, or high blood pressure, than those who have
never used the drug, scientists said on Wednesday.(This doesn't correspond to the bolded line below that states that CVD risk/death is not linked to marijuana use.)
The risk grows with every year of use, they said.
The
findings, from a study of some 1,200 people, could have implications in
the United States among other countries. Several states have legalized
marijuana and others are moving toward it. It is decriminalized in a
number of other countries.
"Support for liberal
marijuana use is partly due to claims that it is beneficial and
possibly not harmful to health," said Barbara Yankey, who co-led the
research at the school of public health at Georgia State University in
the United States.
"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."
Marijuana is also sometimes used for medicinal purposes, such as for glaucoma.
The
study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, was a
retrospective follow-up study of 1,213 people aged 20 or above who had
been involved in a large and ongoing National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey. In 2005–2006, they were asked if they had ever used
marijuana.
For Yankey's study, information on
marijuana use was merged with mortality data in 2011 from the U.S.
National Center for Health Statistics, and adjusted for confounding
factors such as tobacco smoking and variables including sex, age and
ethnicity.
The average duration of use among users of marijuana, or cannabis, was 11.5 years.
The
results showed marijuana users had a 3.42-times higher risk of death
from hypertension than non-users, and a 1.04 greater risk for each year
of use.
There was no link between marijuana use and dying from heart or cerebrovascular diseases such as strokes.
Yankey
said were limitations in the way marijuana use was assessed --
including that researchers could not be sure whether people had used the
drug continuously since they first tried it.
But she said the results chimed with plausible risks, since marijuana is known to affect the cardiovascular system.
"Marijuana
stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, leading to increases in
heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen demand," she said.
Experts not directly involved in the study said its findings would need to be replicated, but already raised concerns.
"Despite
the widely held view that cannabis is benign, this research adds to
previous work suggesting otherwise," said Ian Hamilton, a lecturer in
mental health at Britain's York University.
Reporting by Kate Kelland, editing by Jeremy Gaunt
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