Cannabis-related hospital visits linked to higher dementia risk, study finds [Video]

Adults who have visited the hospital due to cannabis use could be at a higher risk of developing dementia.

A new study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that individuals who had an emergency department visit for using cannabis were at a 23% greater risk of a dementia diagnosis within five years.

People who were hospitalized were at a much larger 72% risk of dementia.

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The study, published in JAMA Neurology, analyzed health data from Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2021, in more than six million individuals aged 45 to 105 years old.

The research found that 16,275 of these individuals had acute care due to cannabis use. Sixty percent of these individuals were men, according to a press release.

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