DOES THE USE OF CANNABIS CAUSE STROKE?
A new research letter looks at the differences between cannabis users (CU) and non-CU in stroke risks and outcomes among young (<45 year old) stroke patients.
The Daily Mail states that using cannabis increased the risk of stroke by narrowing the arteries in the head. Science in the Daily Mail is more often wrong than right and takes more than a grain of salt to make it palatable.
This article from WebMD points out that this kind of study cannot show causality. To do that, you would need to ensure that there were no other differences in the two groups of patients, aside from their cannabis use. In fact, there were major differences between the groups, the most troubling of which is the higher use of tobacco and alcohol in the cannabis use group.
Tobacco is known to be a major risk factor for stroke, so without correcting for this confounder, it...
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