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Having problem keeping up with the latest research on e-cigarettes? The information seems to be constantly evolving. Well… buckle upwards.

There'south another new study and this ane says east-cigarettes have some far-reaching furnishings on your health.

Researchers at the University of Kansas Schoolhouse of Medicine-Wichita say that when y'all're vaping, information technology'southward not but your lungs you have to worry well-nigh. It's also your center — and your mental wellness.

Dr. Mohinder Vindhyal, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the Kansas institution, led the team of scientists.

He told Healthline his team discovered some surprising results.

"When you smoke e-cigarettes, you are much more likely to have an MI [myocardial infarction or heart attack], coronary artery disease, stroke, and are more decumbent to endure from depression," Vindhyal said.

The east-cigarette report is beingness presented at the American College of Cardiology's 68th Almanac Scientific Session later this month.

The researchers analyzed data from more than than 96,000 people who participated in the Centers for Illness Command and Prevention'southward National Health Interview Surveys in 2014, 2016, and 2017. Those are the years the survey included questions most e-cigarette usage.

The scientists constitute that, compared with nonusers, due east-cigarette users were 56 per centum more likely to take a middle assail and 30 per centum more likely to have a stroke. Coronary artery disease and blood jell rates were too much higher.

Vapers were also twice as likely to suffer from depression, feet, and emotional problems.

"These information are a real wake-up phone call and should prompt more than action and awareness virtually the dangers of e-cigarettes," Vindhyal said.

He went on to say that his team's research had its limitations.

"Our study cannot establish causation. Our written report can simply tell if it's associated or non," he said. "That is the drawback of a cross-sectional study."

"The biggest limitation is nosotros exercise not know if these patients were smokers before, and they have switched to e-cigarettes," he added. "Nosotros likewise don't know if they already had any of these outcomes before."

Healthline reached out to several leading tobacco companies, request them to reply to the study.

Philip Morris International was the only 1 to answer.

"This study cannot exist used to atomic number 82 to the conclusion that e-cigarettes cause heart attacks or stroke, something that the authors note in their abstract," stated a company argument sent to Healthline. "Since the vast majority of e-cigarette users are current or ex-smokers, a more plausible explanation for their findings is that previous cigarette smoking increased the likelihood of these events occurring. Smokers are at higher risk of having cardiovascular bug and this risk does not disappear immediately upon switching to a smoke-free product."

The argument goes on to say:

"Importantly, the authors also noted in their press release that 'current cigarette smoking carries a much higher probability of heart set on and stroke than due east-cigarettes.'"

"While e-cigarettes and other smoke-free products are not safe or risk-free, they are a better choice than standing to smoke cigarettes."

Philip Morris has submitted an application to the Nutrient and Drug Administration to sell IQOS, the company'southward electrically heated tobacco production, in the United States.

The University of Kansas study is said to be the largest of its kind, merely other researchers have produced like results.

Last year, in a study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), researchers found that daily e-cigarette users doubled their risk of having a centre set on.

It also found that people who both vape and smoke conventional cigarettes raise their heart assail risk five-fold.

Stanton Glantz, PhD, a UCSF professor of medicine, is the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education.

He wrote about the new Academy of Kansas enquiry in a recent blog post.

"This written report adds to the growing literature… that people who use due east-cigarettes are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including middle attacks and strokes. They also, for the outset time, found an clan with circulatory problems," Glantz wrote.

"Beyond showing that e-cigarettes are a lot more than unsafe than people used to remember (and Public Health England still maintains [their safety]), this growing literature raises serious issues about the claims that e-cigarettes are a skillful 'alternative' to cigarettes, i.east., useful devices for smoking cessation."

Vindhyal said more longitudinal studies are needed.

Just that will have fourth dimension because e-cigarettes accept only been around for slightly more than than a decade, so no long-range studies take been able to be conducted.

Yet, he said, the results of this study should sound the alarm that "safer may not mean prophylactic."