Study links e-cigarettes to heart issues
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People who use e-cigarettes are more likely to have heart problems than those who don鈥檛, says a study released yesterday in the US.
The rate of heart attacks among those who vape was 34 percent higher than among those who don鈥檛, once corrections were made for risk factors such as age, gender, body mass index, cholesterol level, blood pressure and tobacco use.
E-cigarette users were 25 percent more likely to have coronary artery disease and 55 percent more likely to suffer from depression or anxiety, the study says.
鈥淯ntil now, little has been known about cardiovascular events relative to e-cigarette use,鈥 said Mohinder Vindhyal, assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and the study鈥檚 lead author.
鈥淭hese data are a real wake-up call and should prompt more action and awareness about the dangers of e-cigarettes.鈥
The report does not however identify a cause and effect relationship for this observation.
Studies of people who vape are relatively new because the devices only came onto the US market in the last decade or so. US health authorities are alarmed by the rise in popularity of e-cigarettes, battery-powered devices which enable users to inhale nicotine liquids that are often fruit flavored. Among US teens, use of vaping devices rose 78 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year.
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