超过30年的大麻使用轨迹建模确定了五个独特的纵向模式
Amy R Mahar1, Michael P Bancks2, Stephen Sidney3
1Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Scientific reports
|December 28, 2023
概括
这项研究在30年内确定了五种不同的大麻使用模式. 了解这些大麻使用轨迹对于评估长期健康结果至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 药物使用研究研究 药物使用研究
背景情况:
- 大麻是美国最常用的精神活性物质,医疗和娱乐用途越来越多.
- 目前的大麻使用分类方法 (例如,从未/以前/目前,联合年) 可能无法完全捕捉纵向使用模式.
- 纵向大麻使用模式可能与健康结果有独特的关联.
研究的目的:
- 为了确定大麻使用概率在30年中的不同轨迹,在年轻和中年成人中.
- 检查已识别的大麻使用轨迹与累积使用 (联合年) 之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自冠状动脉风险发展在年轻成年人 (心脏) 队列的30年纵向大麻使用数据.
- 采用隐性类分析来识别大麻使用概率的不同模式 (轨迹).
- 对每个确定轨迹组进行质量评估的累积大麻使用 (联合年).
主要成果:
- 确定了五个独特的轨迹,代表了从年轻到中年成人大麻使用概率的不同模式.
- 轨迹组5表现出持续使用大麻的高概率 (0.8-0.9) 与最高的联合年 (0.6 ± 0.4).
- 轨迹组1显示大麻使用的概率较低 (0.05-0) 与最低的联合年 (0.1 ± 0.1).
结论:
- 在年轻和中年成年人中存在明显的大麻使用纵向模式.
- 这些已识别的大麻使用轨迹提供了比简单的当前或累积措施更细致的理解.
- 需要进一步的研究来探索与这些不同的大麻使用轨迹相关的健康影响.
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