Cerebrovascular disease due to cannabis use, UTC for healthcare professionals
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez
- 3 May 2020
There is a link between smoking cannabis and developing arteriopathies (Desbois, 2013) and cerebrovascular disease (Wolff, 2013). Recent reports document cases of young cannabis-smokers with cerebrovascular disease, in whom the proposed underlying mechanism would be intimal hyperplasia (Ntlholang, 2015).
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References
Desbois, A. C., Cacoub, P, & France, P. (2013). Cannabis-associated arterial disease. Ann Vasc Surg, 27, 996 – 1005.
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