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E-cigarettes significantly raise risk of chronic lung disease – survey
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Vaping can significantly increase a person’s risk of developing chronic lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a new study.
Published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, it is the first panel study linking e-cigarettes to respiratory illness in the U.S. adult population.
The findings are based on publicly available datasets that tracked e-cigarette and tobacco habits as well as new lung disease diagnoses in over 32,000 American adults from 2013 to 2016.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), started with people who did not have any reported lung disease and then followed them for three years.
The study excluded the possibility that people with lung disease were more likely to use e-cigarettes, offering stronger evidence of a causal link between adult e-cigarette use and lung diseases than prior studies.
They also found that people who used e-cigarettes and also smoked tobacco were at an even higher risk of developing chronic lung disease than those who used either product alone.
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