Marijuana Use Linked with Prediabetes
What are the long-term effects of marijuana use on the body’s metabolic health?
That’s what a doctoral student, Michael Bancks, at the University of Minnesota set out to learn when he dug into the data for CARDIA, a long-term health study whose 5,115 participants were recruited by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 1985-1986. At the time, they were ages 18 to 30.
Now, in the 30th year of the study, the group has entered middle age. This is when prediabetes, a major metabolic risk factor, often starts to appear.
By using this data, researchers concluded marijuana use, both past and present, may be associated with a higher chance of developing prediabetes but not necessarily diabetes.
The results of the study were published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
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