Cannabis use and blood pressure levels: United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005–2012

You won't have to worry about this since your doctor will never prescribe marijuana for your stroke rehab. I however will get some. It doesn't specify if cannabis was smoked or eaten so the conclusions are useless.

My 13 reasons for marijuana use post-stroke. 

And if you do just ask your doctor what simple foods you need to eat to counteract this increase in blood pressure.

The intersection of these three sets will give lots of posts on foods that lower blood pressure.

119 posts on blood pressure.  26 posts on high blood pressure.   186 posts on diet.

I refuse to do the work your doctor should be doing and correlate all these posts. 

Your doctor had better know about all of them. Your doctor not knowing anything about blood pressure lowering foods is cause for calling the president of the hospital and asking why they are allowing such incompetence in their hospital. We have to start somewhere and get rid of all the dead wood in stroke.

Oops. Once again not following Dale Carnegie; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.

But I'm more concerned about getting stroke survivors recovered than worrying about the fee fees of the stroke medical establishment.

Cannabis use and blood pressure levels: United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005–2012

Journal of Hypertension, 07/15/2016

Alshaarawy O, et al. – The authors conduct this study investigating on cannabis use and BP levels utilizing the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2005–2012 (n=12426). They exhibit the association between SBP and cannabis use among US adults.

Methods

• Cannabis use was evaluated by computer-assisted self-interviews.
• They investigated blood pressure by an average of up to four measurements taken during a single examination.
• They used regression modeling to evaluate cannabis use and BP association.

Results

• Currently active cannabis use was associated with increase in SBP (β=1.6; 95% confidence interval: 0.6, 2.7) in the age–sex-adjusted model.
• Additional covariate adjustment did not affect the positive association. No association between cannabis use and DBP was detected.

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