[HN Gopher] Marijuana use linked with increased risk of heart at...
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Marijuana use linked with increased risk of heart attack, heart
failure
Author : takoid
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-11-06 18:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (newsroom.heart.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (newsroom.heart.org)
| nameless912 wrote:
| This seems unsurprising? I'm sure you incur similar risks from
| smoking or drinking alcohol or large amounts of caffeine on a
| _dailiy_ basis. The thing is, at least in my small sample size of
| 10 or so friends who use pot with any frequency, maybe one or two
| of them use on a daily or near-daily basis. Just about everyone
| else uses occasionally or socially. This study doesn 't seem to
| make any strong conclusions about this usage pattern, and I would
| imagine that it's no worse than any other frequently used
| substance. Again, I don't have a lot of evidence for this beyond
| anecdotal, but I wouldn't take this as clear evidence that
| recreational marijuana is doing more harm than good.
| chalsprhebaodu wrote:
| Very interesting. I have literally the exact opposite
| experience. Of the 15 or so acquaintances of mine that use it,
| only one or two I would say use it occasionally, nearly all of
| them use it daily or nightly (often multiple times),
| occasionally "quitting" cold turkey for short periods.
|
| Some of these people are highly informed about cannabis, some
| less so, but I don't think any of them are under the impression
| that their use is particularly healthy. That said, it would
| probably be meaningful for them to see the results of this
| study.
| FFP999 wrote:
| Speaking from a point of view with N a lot bigger than 15,
| I'm going to endorse this answer: daily use is common.
| neongodzilla wrote:
| Correlation isn't causation.
|
| I know, the headline only says "linked", but most people skip
| over that nuance.
|
| The type of person that would use marijuana daily may not be the
| type of person to exercise much as they should, or eat as well as
| they should, or maybe they have incredibly bad anxiety.
| mydogcanpurr wrote:
| Ctrl+f "exercise" - 0 results
|
| Ctrl+f "diet" - 0 results
|
| The conclusion might be true, but the methodology is junk.
| FFP999 wrote:
| Also I'd say that, with vaping being fairly common today,
| leaving that out of this study is leaving out a big piece of
| the puzzle. I can say that when I switched some years back from
| smoking weed to vaping, my smoker's cough went away in two or
| three weeks, and my wind improved dramatically. Contrariwise,
| the other day, on a whim I smoked a bowl the old-fashioned way,
| and was coughing and had a sore throat for days after.
|
| I'm under no illusions that vaping is actually healthy, but
| based on experience it seems to dramatically reduce the harm.
| stuaxo wrote:
| Well, it's smoking so this is not suprising.
| kylebenzle wrote:
| Anecdotally from my heart surgeon cousin they see the same
| inflammation issue not matter the source. There is something
| about THC that causes heart inflammation. Of course you are
| right too, smoking anything makes it 1000x worse :(
| josefresco wrote:
| "The marijuana user's hospital records were coded for cannabis
| use disorder which can vary from hospital to hospital"
|
| This (among other things) does not give me confidence in the
| results.
| atlas_hugged wrote:
| Seriously. You have to smoke A LOT to get this diagnosis.
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