Many who suffer vaping-related lung damage will have long-term health problems lasting at least a year, a new study reports.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating nearly 100 cases of severe lung injury related to the use of electronic cigarettes, or "vaping." The cases have occurred in five states—Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Indiana, and Minnesota. Most of the people affected...
Consequently, the incidence of vaping-associated lung injury has become more common. Many inhaled environmental agents have been known to cause acute and subacute parenchymal lung injuries. The severity of symptoms secondary to inhalation of these chemical agents is often correlated with the type and ...
Research into the pathology of vaping-associated lung injury is in its early stages, but a Mayo Clinicstudypublished inThe New England Journal of Medicinefinds that lung injuries from vaping most likely are caused by direct toxicity or tissue damage from noxious chemical fumes. Researchers r...
Breakout of Vaping-associated Lung Injuries (VALI) 2019: A Public Health Threat 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者:S Sheikh,MA Baig 摘要: A previously healthy 20 years young man presented in the Emergency Department with worsening shortness of breath for the last two days. He ...
Although investigators have linked vitamin E acetate, a thickener used in some vaping products, to many of the lung injuries, the CDC said in its latest report that "many substances and product sources are being investigated, and there might be more than one cause...
As the number of confirmed and probable cases of lung injury associated with electronic cigarette use, or vaping, surges, CDC, FDA and state health departments have scaled up their joint investigation into identifying the cause of this outbreak, official
"CDC has made it a priority to find out what is causing this outbreak of lung injuries and deaths and we're making progress," said director Robert Redfield. But Schuchat said she feared there could be more deaths before a definitive answer is found....
Update: characteristics of patients in a National outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injuries – United States, October 2019. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2019;68:985–9. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6843e1.Search in Google Scholar 70. Lewis, N, McCaffrey, K...
(a chemical not approved for inhalation) in the lungs of the affected vapers. During that time,2,807e-cigarette users were diagnosed with vape-related lung injuries, (EVALI) and 68 of them died. One study of counterfeit e-cigarettes revealed that all of the devices studied contained ...