UPDATE : According to Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos The answer is very simple. This study which comes to the base of Greece refers to research published in the journal of the American College of Cardiology a few months ago. It is simply a study on the acute effects, the results of which are similar to what happens when you consume coffee, when you take nicotine replacement products or simply after exercise. Konstantinos Farsalinos announces that he has already spoken about this study during his presentation in 2016, he would have mentioned several times that the vascular function of measurements after an intervention has never been of importance in cardiovascular diseases.
According to a new study, the vape would be far more dangerous than people can imagine. Indeed, e-cigarettes would be as bad for the heart as smoking.
"E-CIGARETTES STRENGTHEN THE AORTA AND DAMAGES THE HEART"
This study, which was presented at the great heart conference in Rome, announces that vaping is as bad for the heart as smoking. The results proposed by this study have prompted the intervention of many experts who have also declared that vaping devices could be " much more dangerous than people imagine ". For information, there are more than 2 million e-cigarettes that are used in the UK. Research has found that e-cigarettes stiffen the essential artery of the heart, i.e. the aorta, damaging it as much as conventional cigarettes
Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation and one of Britain's most important doctors says: “ The results prove that vaping exerts a similar effect to conventional cigarettes on the stiffness of the body's main blood vessel. "According to him it is a discovery" very important " which proves " that the use of e-cigarettes cannot be without risks ».
PUBLIC HEALTH IN ENGLISH REVIEW BY CERTAIN SCIENTISTS
This announcement will therefore relaunch an already growing controversy regarding the safety and potential harmfulness of vaping. Last year, UK public health leaders officially approved the use of e-cigarettes, even announcing that they were 95% less harmful than conventional cigarettes. General practitioners will soon be able to prescribe them in addition to nicotine patches and gums in order to help smokers to quit smoking. Despite this some people denounce the statements of the PHE (Public Health England) by declaring that they were based on a study undertaken by scientists in the pay of the vaping industry.
Researchers attending the European Society of Cardiology's annual congress warned that the PHE's recommendation on e-cigarettes was premature. They even went further by announcing that they would not encourage the use of vaping devices.
Having worked on this study, Professor Charalambos Vlachopoulos, researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of Athens gives his conclusions: " We measured the aortic stiffness. If the aorta is stiff, you increase the risk of death or even heart disease ... "Before explaining that:" The aorta is like a balloon next to the heart. The stiffer the ball, the more difficult it is for the heart to pump. »
Charalambos Vlachopoulos does not hesitate to question the position of British public health by declaring " Now, I would not recommend the e-cigarette as a method to give up smoking, I think the UK has too quickly adopted this new device."
For the Professor Robert West, who are " It would certainly be fair to state that this study proves that electronic cigarettes are not without any risk. We now have to assess exactly this risk.»
A STUDY THAT IS NOT UNANIMOUS
However, not everyone agrees and this is the case for Deborah Arnott, director of the "Action on Smoking and Health" group who has very often encouraged the use of e-cigarettes, according to her " this study does not prove that vaping is as dangerous as smoking ».
Rosanna O'Connor, director of the drugs, alcohol and tobacco service at the British public health, announces for her part that she will look at this study with an attentive eye but she insists: " The vape carries a tiny fraction of the harmfulness of cigarettes yet many smokers still do not realize and prefer to continue smoking rather than switch to a much less harmful alternative."
Finally for Tom Pruen, from Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association " Many things have short-term effects on aortic stiffness »And clearly, this study did not show anything new ...
