ArticleJournal of hypertension2016
Cannabis use and blood pressure levels: United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2012.
Article in Journal of hypertension, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The genetics of cannabis lifetime use.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- Post-Mortem Toxicology: A Systematic Review of Death Cases Involving Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Violence Exposure Relates Differently to Blood Pressure and Emotional Health as a Function of Cannabis Use Among Street-Identified Black Americans.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- High Burden of Markedly Elevated Blood Pressure Among Adults Presenting to a Community Emergency Department: An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study at a Teaching Hospital in Missouri, USA.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Lifetime Cannabis Use and Incident Hypertension: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2025Observational
- The relationship between cannabis and cardiovascular disease: clearing the haze.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2025Review
- Endocannabinoid signaling in stress, nausea, and vomiting.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2025Review
- Renal Thrombotic Microangiopathy due to Hypertensive Emergency.Case reports in nephrology · 2025Article
- Cannabis Use and Self-Reported Bothersome Symptoms in People with HIV.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- Acute Effects of Cannabis Inhalation on Arterial Stiffness, Vascular Endothelial Function, and Cardiac Function.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Early-onset alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use with age at onset of hypertension: a survival analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Blood pressure and hypertension in older adults with a history of regular cannabis use: findings from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Potential perioperative cardiovascular outcomes in cannabis/cannabinoid users. A call for caution.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Impact of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana on genome-wide DNA methylation and its relationship with hypertension.Epigenetics · 2023Article
- A Review of the Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Use on Physical Health.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2023Review
- Trends in Cannabis Use, Blood Pressure, and Hypertension in Middle-Aged Adults: Findings From NHANES, 2009-2018.American journal of hypertension · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the cardiovascular risk induced by cannabis use from a series of 43 autopsy cases.International journal of legal medicine · 2023Observational
- Association between cannabis use and blood pressure levels according to comorbidities and socioeconomic status.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sustained cannabis use does not predispose clinical hypertension: Findings from a national survey.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2023Article
- A Review of the Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Use on Physical Health.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectivePreclinical studies have reported acute cardiovascular effects of cannabis, including a dose-dependent increase in blood pressure (BP), whereas orthostatic hypotension may follow as a result of decreased vascular resistance. In case reports, evidence links cannabis with acute cardiovascular events in young and middle-aged adults. Here, we offer epidemiologic estimates on cannabis use and BP levels association from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2005-2012 (n = 12 426).
methodsComputer-assisted self-interviews assessed cannabis use. BP was determined by an average of up to four measurements taken during a single examination. Regression modeling was used to examine cannabis use and BP association.
resultsRecently active cannabis use was associated with increase in SBP (β = 1.6; 95% confidence interval: 0.6, 2.7) in the age-sex-adjusted model. Additional covariate adjustment did not affect the positive association. No association between cannabis use and DBP was detected.
conclusionA modest association between recent cannabis use and SBP was detected among a relatively large nationally representative sample of US adults. With the legalization of cannabis, there is a need for preclinical, clinical and prospective population-based research on the cardiovascular effects of cannabis use.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.