PROSPECTIVE COHORT CANNABIS USE STUDY OF, PREDISPOSITION FOR PSYCHOSIS, AND SYMPTOMS IN YOUNG PEOPLE.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relation between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms in individuals with above average predisposition to psychosis who first used cannabis
PARTICIPANTS: 2437 young people (aged 14 to 24 yrs) With and without predisposition for psychosis.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Psychotic symptoms at follow up as a function of cannabis use and predisposition for psychosis at base
RESULTS; After the adjustment of age, sex socio-economic status, urbanicity, childhood trauma, predisposition for psychosis as base line , and use of other drugs , Tobacco and alcohol. Cannabis used at base line level increased the cumulative incidence of psychotic symptoms at follow up 4 years later. The adjusted ratio 1,69 at 95%. Confidence interval 1,13 to 2,46. The effect of cannabis use was much stronger in those with any predisposition for psychosis at baseline (23,8%) Adjusted difference in risk 95%. At a confidence interval 7.9 to 39,7 P = 0,003 than those without (5,6 % The risk difference in the predisposition group was significantly greater than the risk difference in the non-predisposition group. There was a dose response relation with increasing frequency of cannabis use.
Predisposition for psychosis at baseline did not significantly predict cannabis use four years later. (Adjusted odd ratio 1,42.. 95%. Confidence interval 0,88 to 2,31
Conclusion: Cannabis used moderately increases the risk of psychotic symptoms in young people but has a much stronger effect in those with evidence of predisposition for psychosis
ACCEPTED 2004
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