{"id":11108,"date":"2019-12-13T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11108"},"modified":"2019-12-13T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:51:19","slug":"evidence-suggests-e-cigarettes-not-healthy-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11108","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Suggests E-Cigarettes Not Healthy Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11102\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11102\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gr-68424-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gr-68424-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gr-68424-1-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gr-68424-1-1-405x259.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the Food and Drug Administration found that a quarter of all high school students used e-cigarettes in 2019, up five percentage points from last year. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Eric Galatas<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0In the wake of recent reports of fatal lung illness connected with the use of e-cigarettes, new research seems to confirm concerns about the health impacts of vaping.<\/p>\n<p>A study by Boston University researchers found that e-cigarettes altered cholesterol levels, and Dr. Florian Rader, a cardiologist at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says his group\u2019s research suggests that vaping may be more harmful to heart health than traditional cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now our study adds to the evidence that e-cigarette smoking may not be quite as healthy as it\u2019s being portrayed,\u201d Rader states. \u201cAnd I think that there\u2019s reason enough for now to be at least cautious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rader compared the blood flow of 10 non-smokers, 10 tobacco cigarette smokers and 10 e-cigarette users.<\/p>\n<p>Testing blood flows at rest and while squeezing a hand grip, only e-cigarette users showed signs of coronary vascular dysfunction, even when they were not exerting themselves physically.<\/p>\n<p>Industry groups have previously argued that vaping is a healthy alternative to traditional cigarettes, especially for people trying to kick their smoking habit.<\/p>\n<p>Commercials for e-cigarettes do warn about the health risks of nicotine, but Katie Jones, executive director of the American Lung Association in Texas, says there\u2019s no evidence that electronic cigarettes are an effective cessation device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing with e-cigarettes is they contain chemicals that are harmful to lung health, such as heavy metals, carcinogens,\u201d she points out. \u201cAnd especially for children or for teens or young adults, their lungs are still developing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent study by the Food and Drug Administration found that a quarter of all high school students used e-cigarettes in 2019, up five percentage points from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rader notes his group\u2019s initial research and limited trial size could benefit from further studies, and testing health impacts over time, to determine the true impacts of vaping on public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Galatas AUSTIN, Texas \u2013\u00a0In the wake of recent reports of fatal lung illness connected with the use of e-cigarettes, new research seems to confirm concerns about the health impacts of vaping. A study by Boston University researchers found that e-cigarettes altered cholesterol levels, and Dr. Florian Rader, a cardiologist at the Smidt Heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11109,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108\/revisions\/11109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}