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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Study Examines Potential Link Between Marijuana Use and Prediabetes Development 🌿Study Examines Potential Link Between Marijuana Use and Prediabetes Development
Could it be possible that we have misinterpreted the health benefits of marijuana on diabetes risk?
A new study certainly intimates this, stating that it is quite possible those who use marijuana—even those who no longer use it—are at a higher risk for developing prediabetes.
According to Vanderbilt University assistant professor of medicine in the endocrinology department, Shichun Bao, MD, PhD, the study still needs more review but does provide, at least, a lot of caution.
Bao comments, “It does not make too much sense that marijuana use could place individuals at increased risk for prediabetes but not diabetes, as we all know prediabetes is a risk factor for diabetes. [Researchers] should do a prospective randomized trial to study this, and need to give a possible good explanation on the reason why this discordance happened.”
In addition, Laura Young, MD, PhD, shares that marijuana use is, of course, common; and...
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