{"id":1469,"date":"2019-11-28T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/finance\/2019\/11\/28\/another-health-warning-for-e-cigarette-users-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-lung-disease\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T17:04:36","slug":"another-health-warning-for-e-cigarette-users-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-lung-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2019\/11\/28\/another-health-warning-for-e-cigarette-users-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-lung-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Another health warning for e-cigarette users \u2014 that has nothing to do with lung disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>There\u2019s more evidence that e-cigarettes may be bad for your health.<\/p>\n<p>Smoking e-cigarettes increases the risk of heart disease \u2014 elevating bad cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose levels, and decreasing blood flow in the heart \u2014 and is also associated with coronary vascular dysfunction, according to two separate studies that will be presented at the American Heart Association\u2019s Scientific Sessions, an annual meeting focused on shaping the future of cardiovascular science and medicine, in Philadelphia from Nov. 16 to Nov. 18.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"shareable\" data-share-hover=\"true\" data-share-modprefix=\"mw_pullquote_\" data-share-text=\"Bad cholesterol was higher in people who only smoked e-cigarettes compared to nonsmokers. \"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n                  Bad cholesterol was higher in people who only smoked e-cigarettes compared to nonsmokers. &#13;<\/p>\n<footer>&#13;<br \/>\n                      &#13;<br \/>\n                  <\/footer>\n<p>&#13;\n              <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 2,000 Americans who use e-cigarettes have become sick since March, many of them teenagers and young adults, and at least 40 people have died. The bulk of the cases occurred in August and September but new cases are still being reported, the Associated Press reported; THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/basic_information\/e-cigarettes\/severe-lung-disease.html\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was found in most samples<\/a> tested by the Food and Drug Administration. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2019\/t1108-telebriefing-vaping.html\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified vitamin E acetate<\/a>, a chemical added to vaping fluid, as a \u201cvery strong culprit of concern\u201d in the illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no long-term safety data on e-cigarettes,\u201d said Rose Marie Robertson, the American Heart Association\u2019s deputy chief science and medical officer. \u201cHowever, there are decades of data for the safety of other nicotine replacement therapies.\u201d Bad cholesterol, or low-density lipoproteins, was higher in sole e-cigarette users compared to nonsmokers. <\/p>\n<p>Juul did not respond to a MarketWatch request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers evaluated healthy adults (ages 21 to 45) without existing cardiovascular disease who were taking no daily medications. The study\u2019s 476 participants included 94 non-smokers, 45 e-cigarette smokers, 52 e-cigarette and tobacco cigarette smokers, and 285 tobacco cigarette smokers. Analysis was adjusted for age, race, sex, and non-smokers, and whether people smoked traditional and\/or e-cigarettes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best option is to use FDA-approved methods to aid in smoking cessation, along with behavioral counseling,\u201d said the study\u2019s author Sana Majid, a postdoctoral fellow in vascular biology at the Boston University School of Medicine. The American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science provided research materials for the study, and it was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Also see: <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/another-reason-to-delete-facebook-better-exam-results-2019-11-12\" class=\"icon none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another reason to delete Facebook: Better exam results<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In a separate study to be released at the same conference this week, researchers analyzed heart blood flow, a measure of coronary vascular function, of 19 young-adult smokers (ages 24 to 32) immediately before and after smoking either e-cigarettes or tobacco cigarettes. They examined coronary vascular function while participants were at rest and after performing a hand-grip exercise to simulate physiologic stress.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"shareable\" data-share-hover=\"true\" data-share-modprefix=\"mw_pullquote_\" data-share-text=\"These studies could be worrying news for e-cigarette users, especially those who are starting young.\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n                  These studies could be worrying news for e-cigarette users, especially those who are starting young.&#13;<\/p>\n<footer>&#13;<br \/>\n                      &#13;<br \/>\n                  <\/footer>\n<p>&#13;\n              <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have been at least half a dozen vaping-related deaths reported in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota and Oregon and, most recently, California. At least 380 cases of the lung illness had been reported in 36 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/yet-another-death-has-been-linked-to-vaping-related-lung-illness-2019-09-17\" class=\"icon none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as of September<\/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>This could be worrying news for e-cigarette users, especially those who are starting young. Nearly 28% of high schoolers and 11% of middle schoolers this year reported e-cigarette use within the past 30 days, a National Youth Tobacco Survey concluded. More than half of those current e-cigarette users said that Juul was their usual brand, according to the research, which was funded by the FDA and CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Among many claims in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/6532907-Breja-v-Juul-Lawsuit.html\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent wrongful-termination lawsuit<\/a> filed by a former Juul executive \u2014 Siddharth Breja, the company\u2019s former senior vice president of finance \u2014 was the allegation that company leadership had known that mint-flavored pods would compensate for a lack of sales from other flavors. Juul announced last week that it would stop selling mint e-cigarettes; it previously said it would stop selling fruit and dessert flavors.<\/p>\n<p>Juul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/10\/30\/former-juul-executive-sues-over-retaliation-claims-company-knowingly-sold-tainted-pods.html\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously told CNBC<\/a> the company would \u201cvigorously defend this lawsuit\u201d and dismissed its allegations as \u201cbaseless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC recommends that people should not purchase any type of e-cigarette or vaping, or products containing THC, off the street. \u201cSince the specific compound or ingredient causing lung injury are not yet known, the only way to assure that you are not at risk while the investigation continues is to consider refraining from use of all e-cigarette or vaping products,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/basic_information\/e-cigarettes\/severe-lung-disease.html\" target=\"_new\" class=\"icon \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <em>(Meera Jagannathan contributed to this story.)<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- \/1035677\/marketwatch_ --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There\u2019s more evidence that e-cigarettes may be bad for your health. 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