Vaping and Your Cardiovascular Health

Vaping and Your Cardiovascular Health

By: Tiffany Davis

Flavor Vapor Media Specialist

                Many people compare vaping devices to traditional cigarettes. This intertwined thought process leads many people to think that vaping like traditional cigarettes could damage their heart. This has recently been proved wrong by www.escardio.org a European Society of Cardiology.

            We all have heard the many complications when people smoke tobacco products. The list seems to go on and on. Even though vaping has only been around for a few years and no long term studies have been done they look promising. There have been studies done on various aspects of vaping and e-cigs and so far so good. Drexel University concluded that vaporizer has “no health concern”. Now the European Society of Cardiology’s study has found that there was no damage to the heart. According to ESCARDIO.org:

            “Laboratory analyses of the liquids show that they are less toxic than regular cigarettes. Most studies have found no nitrosamines, but even in studies where nitrosamines were found, the levels detected were 500-1400 times less than the amount present in one tobacco cigarette. This means that electronic cigarettes must be used daily for 4-12 months to get the amount of nitrosamines present in a single tobacco cigarette.”

            Really! 4-12 Months of vaping to equal one traditional cigarette! I’m happy to hear these results and I am now knowledgeable on the subject to educate other people. Hopefully, help those who are scared of vaporizers better understand them.

“The researchers measured myocardial function in 20 healthy young daily smokers aged 25-45 years before and after smoking one tobacco cigarette and 22 daily electronic cigarette users of similar age before and after using the device for 7 minutes. Experienced users of electronic cigarettes were studied because they use the device more intensively than first-time users. Although both groups were of equal age, users of electronic cigarettes had a 44% higher lifetime tobacco smoking exposure compared to current smokers. Myocardial function was examined using cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) and hemodynamic measurements (blood pressure and heart rate). The researchers found that smoking one tobacco cigarette led to significant acute myocardial dysfunction but electronic cigarettes had no acute adverse effects on cardiac function. Smoking a tobacco cigarette had important hemodynamic consequences, with significant increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and in heart rate. In contrast, electronic cigarettes produced only a slight elevation in diastolic blood pressure. Dr Farsalinos said: “This is an indication that although nicotine was present in the liquid used (11mg/ml), it is absorbed at a lower rate compared to regular cigarette smoking.”

            So, amazingly enough the vaporizers produced a slight increases in blood pressure compared to the very different effects of a cigarette. Also, something I didn’t know was that nicotine absorbed slower into the blood stream compared to traditional cigarettes.

Contributors:

Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD1, Dimitris Tsiapras, MD1, Stamatis Kyrzopoulos, MD1, and Vassilis Voudris, MD1

1 Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece

Authors: Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos (Greece), Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center

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