A new study revealed that vape users have a higher risk of heart disease as compared to others.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) reported that in 2019 summers, an outbreak hit America because of a chemical found in some vapes that damaged lung tissues, leaving people gasping for air and coughing.
During this outbreak, 2,800 people were hospitalised while 68 died.
According to the Science Alert, the study was presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Cardiology, suggesting that people aged 18 years and over who have used vape/ e-cigarettes have a 19% higher risk of experiencing heart failure.
Unlike a sudden heart attack, heart failure is a slow weakening of the heart, so it struggles to pump blood around the body.
For this study researchers analysed the health record of 175,667 US adults involved in the US National Institutes of Health.
Yakubu Bene-Alhasan, researcher at MedStar Health in Baltimore, after presenting the study said in a statement, “More and more studies are linking e-cigarettes to harmful effects and finding that it might not be as safe as previously thought. The difference we saw was substantial."
Yu-Ming Ni, a cardiologist, told Healthline, “It does make me concerned that what we've suspected about e-cigarettes may be true, that they have some harm to themselves related to the nicotine consumption.”
