Experts Say Marijuana Use May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke

Experts Say Marijuana Use May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke

New details have emerged indicating that based on a report by government researchers, it has been stated that smoking marijuana increases the body's production of a protein that raises levels of blood fats associated with heart attack and stroke.

It is noteworthy of mention that according to background investigation into this report, Dr. Jean Lud Cadet, chief of the Molecular Neuropsychiatry Research Branch of the National Institute of Drug Abuse stated that the finding helps explain the increased risk of such cardiovascular problems found in previous studies of marijuana.

It should be noted that he is lead author of the report, published in the May 13 issue of Molecular Psychiatry.

Cadet is quoted as saying that "We've done a number of clinical papers reporting on marijuana users. In the past, we have reported cognitive abnormalities, and a paper in 2005 reported vascular [blood vessel] abnormalities."

He said: "The idea was that there might be marijuana-induced changes in proteins related not only to the vascular problems we were reporting but also to other medical problems marijuana users suffer from."

However, it should be noted that Dr. Christopher Granger, a professor of medicine at Duke University who has done studies of risk factors in cardiovascular disease: "It is an interesting study, but I don't think it is particularly profound . It looks at a relatively small number of people and the relationship between marijuana and this particular protein in the blood stream. There is a relationship, but there is far from proof that it is cause-and-effect, and if it is cause-and-effect that it would have an effect on the people using marijuana."


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The medical pros and cons of marijuana are described by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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