Triggering Myocardial Infarction by Marijuana
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez
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In 2001, Murray Mittleman and other researchers published the article 'Triggering Myocardial Infarction by Marijuana.' They interviewed 3,882 patients with acute myocardial infarction, on average four days after infarction onset. They used the case-crossover study design to compare the reported use of marijuana within 60 minutes preceding symptoms of myocardial infarction onset to its expected frequency using self-matched control data. The results show that in the studied population, the risk of myocardial infarction onset was elevated 4.8 times over baseline in the first hour after marijuana...
