- More than 64 million people around the world are affected by heart failure.
- Heart failure can occur if the heart muscle is damaged in some way, such as through disease, high blood pressure, or cigarette smoking.
- A new study from researchers at MedStar Health says people who use e-cigarettes have a much higher risk of developing heart failure compared to those who have never vaped.
More than 64 million people globally are affected by
Heart failure
Now, a new study presented at the American College of Cardiology annual scientific session earlier this month reports that people who use e-cigarettes have a much higher risk of developing heart failure compared to those who have never vaped.
The results of this study have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
According to Yakubu Bene-Alhasan, MD, MPH, a resident physician at MedStar Health in Baltimore and lead author of this study, although some studies have been conducted on the association between vaping and
“Heart failure is a condition with high morbidity and mortality,” Bene-Alhasan explained to Medical News Today. “Knowing if vaping could impact heart failure is useful in drawing up interventions to reduce the scourge of heart failure.”
For this study, Bene-Alhasan and his team reviewed data from electronic health records and surveys of more than 175,000 U.S. adults from the All of Us study, run by the National Institutes of Health.
Upon analysis, researchers found that people who used e-cigarettes at any point in their lives were 19% more likely to…
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