{"id":25955,"date":"2025-04-14T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25955"},"modified":"2025-04-14T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:27:33","slug":"older-people-seeking-care-for-cannabis-use-at-greater-risk-for-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25955","title":{"rendered":"Older People Seeking Care for Cannabis Use at Greater Risk for Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause.<\/p>\n

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Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of cannabis use were almost twice as likely to develop dementia<\/a> over the next five years, compared with similar people in the general population, a large Canadian study reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

When compared with adults who sought care for other reasons, the risk of developing dementia was still 23 percent higher among users of cannabis, the active ingredient in marijuana, the study also found.<\/p>\n

The study included the medical records of six million people in Ontario from 2008 to 2021. The authors accounted for health and sociodemographic differences between comparison groups, some of which play a role in cognitive decline.<\/p>\n

The data do not reveal how much cannabis the subjects had been using, and the study does not prove that regular or heavy cannabis use plays a causal role in dementia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But the finding does raise serious concerns that require further exploration, said Dr. Daniel T. Myran, the first author of the study, which was published in JAMA Neurology.<\/p>\n

\u201cFiguring out whether or not cannabis use or heavy regular chronic use causes dementia is a challenging and complicated question that you don\u2019t answer in one study,\u201d said Dr. Myran, an assistant professor of family medicine at University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n

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Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause.Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of cannabis use were almost twice as likely to develop dementia over the next five years, compared with similar people in the general population, a large Canadian study reported on Monday.When compared with adults who sought care for other reasons, the risk of developing dementia was still 23 percent higher among users of cannabis, the active ingredient in marijuana, the study also found.The study included the medical records of six million people in Ontario from 2008 to 2021. The authors accounted for health and sociodemographic differences between comparison groups, some of which play a role in cognitive decline.The data do not reveal how much cannabis the subjects had been using, and the study does not prove that regular or heavy cannabis use plays a causal role in dementia.But the finding does raise serious concerns that require further exploration, said Dr. Daniel T. Myran, the first author of the study, which was published in JAMA Neurology.\u201cFiguring out whether or not cannabis use or heavy regular chronic use causes dementia is a challenging and complicated question that you don\u2019t answer in one study,\u201d said Dr. Myran, an assistant professor of family medicine at University of Ottawa.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25957,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25958,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions\/25958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}