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Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2] [a] is an umbrella term, [15] [16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
Chest and back pain from recurrent pneumothoraces (air in the chest outside of the lungs) [115] Trouble breathing, necessitating a ventilator and medically induced coma. [116] The 18-year-old patient says she bought vaping products from a smoke shop that did not ask for her ID card, enabling her to lie and claim that she was 22. [117]
Whether long-term vaping can raise the chance for malignancy in individuals with a susceptibility for tumor growth is unknown. [202] The effects of nicotine on the sympathoadrenal system could stimulate the advancement of cancer in people who have cancer. [203] Nicotine has been shown to induce DNA damage in the Escherichia colipol A+/pol− ...
Middle and high school students are being exposed to second-hand fumes from vaping. What harm does second-hand fumes from vaping cause to young lungs? Medical experts want to know [Video]
In recent decades, smoking tobacco through a water pipe, or hookah, has gained popularity worldwide, including in the U.S. -- especially among young adults. Research finds that around 1 in 5 ...
A new study indicates that people who have used a vape at any point in their lives are 19% more likely to experience heart failure compared to people who have never used them.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of lung infection that occurs in people who are on mechanical ventilation breathing machines in hospitals. As such, VAP typically affects critically ill persons that are in an intensive care unit (ICU) and have been on a mechanical ventilator for at least 48 hours.
A 2018 Cochrane review found that, in rare cases, nicotine replacement therapy can cause non-ischemic chest pain (i.e., chest pain that is unrelated to a heart attack) and heart palpitations, but does not increase the incidence of serious cardiac adverse events (i.e., myocardial infarction, stroke, and cardiac death) relative to controls. [47]