Cardiovascular effects of marijuana and synthetic cannabinoids: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 151-166

  Pacher, Pal ^a   Steffens, Sabine ^b   Haskó, György ^c   Schindler, Thomas H ^d   Kunos, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZD 1704; AZD 1940; CANNABIDIOL; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CANNABINOID 2 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID DERIVATIVE; CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; ENDOCANNABINOID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NABILONE; PROTEIN P42; PROTEIN P44; RIMONABANT; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TETRAHYDROCANNABIVARIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR AGONIST; MEDICAL CANNABIS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CANNABIS USE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FATTY LIVER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHOCK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; METABOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYNTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR AGONISTS; CANNABINOIDS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; HUMANS; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MEDICAL MARIJUANA; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85041958308     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2017.130     Document Type: Review

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