{"id":4230,"date":"2019-02-01T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2020-05-09T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:42:13","slug":"more-mixed-bags-for-e-cigs-study-suggests-e-cigs-increase-risk-of-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4230","title":{"rendered":"More mixed bags for e-cigs … study suggests e-cigs increase risk of stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been such a mixed week for e-cigs, with one study showing e-cigs are more successful than nicotine patches and gum for helping people quit, yet the American Lung Association ripping the FDA as a “failure” for doing nothing to stem the tide of teen vaping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, this week another study came out that e-cigarettes, while perhaps safer than cigarettes, are still not completely harmless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what is admittadly a pretty limited study, a new survey by the American Stroke Association shows that e-cig use is associated with a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From an NPR story:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There’s a certain notion that e-cigarettes are harmless,” says Dr. Paul Ndunda<\/a>, the study’s author and an assistant professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas in Wichita. “But this study<\/a> and previous other studies show that while they’re less harmful than normal cigarettes, their use still comes with risks.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This study relied on a behavioral factor survey from the CDC and looked at 66,000 e-cig users. It found a 71 percent higher risk of stroke, 59 percent higher risk of heart attack and 40 percent higher risk of heart disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(OK, I’m going to be honest here … while I’m sure these figures are accurate, my first question is how many of these e-cig users are smokers and former smokers … the increased risk of stroke and heart disease could be<\/em> from the smoking more than the e-cigs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study does get into this to a degree, to be fair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From NPR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ndunda found e-cigarette users are twice as likely to also smoke conventional cigarettes, compared with people who don’t use e-cigarettes.<\/p>

To see the health effects of e-cigarette use alone, Ndunda and his colleague Dr. Tabitha Muutu compared people who had only used e-cigarettes \u2014 not conventional cigarettes \u2014 to nonsmokers.<\/p>

“Even in that group there was a 29 percent higher risk of stroke and a 25 percent higher risk of heart attack,” Ndunda says. Taken together, these two analyses point to an additive effect of e-cigarette and conventional cigarette use. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, Ndunda admits in the aritlce that the study has its limitations because there’s so many factors at play here — e-cigs, mixing e-cigs and cigarettes, and my point, the pre-existing damage experienced by former smokers from their decades of cigarette use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, this survey strongly suggests it’s probably a really, really bad idea to mix e-cigs and cigarettes together. That if you’re going to use e-cigs, you really have to quit cigarettes to actually have any health benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been such a mixed week for e-cigs, with one study showing e-cigs are more successful than nicotine patches and gum for helping people quit, yet the American Lung Association ripping the FDA as a “failure” for doing nothing to stem the tide of teen vaping. 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