Cannabis use in youth is associated with chronic inflammation
Emmet Power, David Mongan, Colm Healy, Subash Raj Susai, Melanie Föcking, Stanley Zammit, Mary Cannon, David Cotter · 2024
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Description
Emmet Power and co-authors link heavy cannabis use in young adults to a marker of long term inflammation in a 2024 study. Both inflammation markers and cannabis exposure have been tied to later mental illness, so the team tested them together.
A long running British cohort gave data on 914 people, with four inflammation markers measured in blood at age twenty four. Cannabis use in the past year was classed as none, occasional, or daily. Daily or near daily use tied strongly to one marker, a protein linked to chronic body wide inflammation and to brain aging processes. The other three markers showed no link, and neither did occasional use. The authors adjusted for income, body weight, childhood trauma, and smoking.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emmet Power, David Mongan, Colm Healy, Subash Raj Susai, Melanie Föcking, Stanley Zammit, Mary Cannon, David Cotter |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |