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Medicine
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
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Lübeck – Consumption of an e-cigarette containing nicotine resulted in a randomized study in vascular medicine (2018, doi: 10117 / 1358863X18779694) for a transient increase in systolic blood pressure and heart rate that lasts longer than after smoking a conventional cigarette. Researchers are concerned that regular consumption of e-cigarettes could affect their heart and circulation in the long term in the same way as smoking.
Electronic cigarettes are not harmful to health because they do not burn and the lungs do not burn. Exposure to smoke containing carcinogens. This can be applied to cancer risk. However, smokers also have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, which is not associated with pollutants (smoke) in smoke, but also with nicotine. However, nicotine consumption is the motivation for most people to reach the electronic cigarette.
Klaas Franzen of the Lübeck campus of the Schleswig-Holstein University Medical Center analyzed the effects of electronic cigarettes and conventional cigarettes in a randomized crossover study. Study reviewed The 15 healthy volunteers were divided into three groups, inhaling the smoke of a conventional cigarette or the steam of an e-cigarette. The e-cigarettes contained 24 mg / ml of nicotine in one group and were nicotine-free in the other group.
As expected, after smoking conventional cigarettes, systolic blood pressure increased for more than 15 minutes. But even the nicotine in the e-cigarette has not missed its effect. There was also an increase in systolic blood pressure, which lasted more than 45 minutes, whereas the nicotine-free electronic cigarette had no effect on blood pressure
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