Partaking in cannabis, a recreational and medicinal substance commonly smoked or ingested, may increase the risk of severe a new study published on Friday found. published in the peer-reviewed academic journal , found that one of the many factors increasing the risk of a severe COVID infection is smoking cannabis. While early research found that factors such as BMI, smoking history, age and pre-existing conditions could also impact the severity of the infection, it is only now that the relationship between cannabis and has been established.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis analyzed the health records of 72,501 people who saw a medical professional for The data was sources from BJC HealthCare hospitals and clinics in Missouri and Illinois between Feb. 1, 2020, and Jan.
31, 2022. Through analyzing the data, the researchers established a pattern that those who had used any form of cannabis in the year prior to contracting the virus were significantly more likely to be hospitalized or put in intensive care compared to those who had not partaken. “There’s this sense among the public that cannabis is safe to use, that it’s not as bad for your health as smoking or drinking, that it may even be good for you,” said senior author Li-Shiun Chen, MD, DSc, a professor of psychiatry.
“I think that’s because there hasn’t been as much research on the health effects of cannabis as compared to tobacco or alcohol. What we found is that canna.
