People who use e-cigarettes are 19 percent more likely to develop heart failure, compared to those who have never used them, a new study published Tuesday revealed. The data point was included in o…
People who use e-cigarettes are 19 percent more likely to develop heart failure, compared to those who have never used them, a new study published Tuesday revealed.
The data point was included in one of the largest prospective studies to date on the link between vaping and heart failure. The findings of the study are being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) annual scientific session.
Researchers examined data from surveys and from All of Us, a national study of adults run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of 175,667 study participants, who had an average age of 52 and were 60.5 percent female, according to the ACC press release. They found that 3,242 participants developed heart failure with a follow-up time of a median of 45 months.
It’s not really the nicotine that does this. Any kind of smoke is carcinogenic, and the vape juice additives like vitamin e and inhaling oil is what gets you.
Nicotine is dangerous because it drives you to keep filling your lungs with stuff other than air, but it’s not the thing that kills you.
This is one of those statistical deceptions. Vaping doesn't give you a 20% chance at hear failure. It's just raising your already existing chance 20% higher. For example, if you've got a 5% chance to develop heart failure, now you've got a 6% chance for vaping.
They DID adjust for previous and current use of other substances (such as alcohol and plain old tobacco), if anyone else was immediately curious about that like I was. As I understand it conclusive research has been tough because so many vapers are former smokers and many also just do both.
But it makes sense, I mean I remember when I was first hearing about vapes back before they really blew up. People at that time were generally saying the nicotine was probably still bad for your heart
I'm vaping for 4 years, meanwhile almost no nicotine. It enabled me to train again after 20 years. Everyone is different. And there are different ways of vaping. Im not saying it's good, nope, I wish i wouldn't do it anymore, but i try to reduce as much as possible & it's much better for me than smoking.
It looks to me like this study was specifically for e-cigs (with nicotine). Recently there have been some studies about heavy metal poisoning and weed pens. My takeaway was that you could reduce your risk by using a reasonably high quality vape (because the materials of the vaporizer itself can leach into the product while heating), and to avoid no or low regulation weed (and delta 8) which tested much worse than regulated stuff. This is based off one recent study in canada and is obviously only exploratory.
Anecdotally my lungs and my wallet really appreciated it when I switched from a pen + cartridges to concentrates + a nice vaporizer (carta). I also use a mouthpeace with a filter but who knows if that does anything significant.