Burden of arrhythmia in recreational marijuana users

作者：Desai Rupak^*; Patel Upenkumar; Deshmukh Abhishek; Sachdeva Rajesh; Kumar Gautam

来源：International Journal of Cardiology, 2018, 264: 91-92.

DOI：10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.03.113

• Recreational marijuana
• Cannabis
• Arrhythmia
• Atrial fibrillation
• Trends
• In-hospital mortality

Marijuana or Cannabis is extensively used as a recreational substance globally. Case reports have reported cardiac arrhythmias immediately following recreational marijuana use. However, the burden of arrhythmias in hospitalized marijuana users have not been evaluated through prospective or cross-sectional studies. Therefore, we planned to measure temporal trends of the frequency of arrhythmias in hospitalized marijuana users using National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database in the United States.

• 出版日期2018-8-1