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Study links cannabis to heart attacks in young adults but research ‘can’t be used to show a direct cause’

Findings presented at the American Heart Association’s virtual Scientific Sessions conference last week revealed a troubling trend.

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Researchers found that a growing number of people under 50 diagnosed with cannabis use disorder were later hospitalized for a heart attack, reports Medical Xpress .

And though the findings have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, that hasn’t slowed the rush of headlines linking cannabis use directly to heart attacks. Here’s what you need to know.

To inform their findings, researchers analyzed the medical records of 819,354 people from a large public database of hospital stays and identified people aged 18 to 49 that had

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