{"id":6921,"date":"2024-06-26T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2024-06-26T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:57:52","slug":"cannabis-use-tied-to-increased-risk-of-severe-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/26\/cannabis-use-tied-to-increased-risk-of-severe-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Risk of Severe COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pulmonology\/smoking\/110778\">Med Page Today<\/a> Hospitalization risk 80% higher versus nonusers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cannabis use was significantly associated with a greater risk of severe outcomes following a COVID-19 infection, according to a retrospective study that spanned the first 2 years of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among more than 70,000 patients with a documented case of COVID at a large medical center in the Midwest, use of cannabis was linked with an 80% greater risk of hospitalization and a 27% higher risk for intensive care unit (ICU) admission after an infection, but no difference in all-cause mortality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hospitalization: OR 1.80 (95% CI 1.68-1.93)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ICU admission: OR 1.27 (95% CI 1.14-1.41)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mortality: OR 0.97 (95% CI 0.82-1.14)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The elevated risks for hospitalization and ICU admission were about on par with that of smoking, reported Li-Shiun Chen, MD, MPH, ScD, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and coauthors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The electronic health record (EHR)-based study, published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2820235?utm_campaign=articlePDF&amp;utm_medium=articlePDFlink&amp;utm_source=articlePDF&amp;utm_content=jamanetworkopen.2024.17977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>JAMA Network Open<\/em><\/a>, also confirmed the established link between tobacco smoking and increased risks for serious outcomes from COVID. That association was observed both in current and former smokers and included a higher risk for mortality.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;There&#8217;s this sense among the public that cannabis is safe to use, that it&#8217;s not as bad for your health as smoking or drinking, that it may even be good for you,&#8221; Chen said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/cannabis-use-tied-to-increased-risk-of-severe-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s because there hasn&#8217;t been as much research on the health effects of cannabis as compared to tobacco or alcohol.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;What we found is that cannabis use is not harmless in the context of COVID-19,&#8221; Chen continued. &#8220;People who reported yes to current cannabis use, at any frequency, were more likely to require hospitalization and intensive care than those who did not use cannabis.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" QlEf GmshEJ dz Ea mq WyD c F \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Med Page Today Hospitalization risk 80% higher versus nonusers. Cannabis use was significantly associated with a greater risk of severe outcomes following a COVID-19 infection, according to a retrospective study that spanned the first 2 years of the pandemic. 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