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Cannabis Could Be Bad for Your Heart (undark.org)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

From the study:

A total of 4,636,628 relatively healthy adults aged ≤50 years: 93,267 (2.01%) cannabis-users and 4,543,361 (97.99%) non-users. Cannabis-users were older (26 ± 8 vs 21 ± 9.5 years, P < 0.0001) and had higher comorbidities, including a nearly 15-fold higher prevalence of DD (30.63% vs 1.88%, P < 0.01) and BMI >30 (18.72% vs 3.25%, P < 0.0001). After PSM, each group had 89,776 patients with balanced demographics and baseline health characteristics.

Just ignore the 5 year age gap and 6x the rate of people with a BMI over 30...

Surely neither of those are gonna effect heart health or anything. /s

They could have narrowed down the control sample to line up with the cannabis user demographic, and then we could have gotten actual useful data out of this.

We still will if a rational person gets a hold of it and actually controls for confounding variables, but that's not gonna grab many headlines.