Tag: E-cigarette-health-impact

• Animal study shows flavored e-cigarettes may worsen asthma

  Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney, University of Vermont and the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research conducted an animal study in mice to determine the effect of flavored e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine, on allergic airways disease. Results of the study showed that some flavored e-cigarettes may alter asthma pathophysiology even when used without…

  Sreeram Penna

  September 20, 2019

• Fatty liver could be caused by E-cigarette smoke.

  Researchers found that regular e-cigarette exposure may lead to an accumulation of fat in the liver. Their conclusion was based on an animal study on mice. These research findings are presented at ENDO 2018, the Endocrine Society’s 100th annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. This study was led by Theodore C. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the…

  Sreeram Penna

  March 19, 2018

• Research suggests that heating coils contribute toxic metals in e-cigarette vapors

  Significant amounts of toxic metals, including lead, leak from some e-cigarette heating coils and are present in the aerosols inhaled by users, according to a study from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is published online in Environmental Health Perspectives. In the study, the scientists examined e-cigarette devices owned by…

  Sreeram Penna

  February 22, 2018