Self-reported marijuana use over 25 years and abdominal adiposity: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

Bancks MP, Auer R, Carr JJ, Goff DC, Kiefe C, Rana JS, Reis J, Sidney S, Terry JG, Schreiner PJ. Self-reported marijuana use over 25 years and abdominal adiposity: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 2018 Apr;113(113). 689-698. PMID: 29127726 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC5847434 NIHMSID: NIHMS919846.

Abstract

We investigated the association between cumulative lifetime and current marijuana use with total abdominal adipose tissue (AT), visceral AT, subcutaneous AT, intermuscular AT, and mean liver attenuation (LA) at mid-life.