WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published on Monday its first report of lung injury illnesses associated with the use of e-cigarettes, showing that the lung disease disproportionately affected young people. As of October 22, 49 states...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that 1,479 vaping-related lung injury cases had been reported across the country as of Oct. 15. A total of 33 deaths have been confirmed in 24 U.S. states, with the median age ...
vaping-associated lung injuryvitamin E AcetateThe electronic cigarette (EC), was initially introduced as a safe alternative to conventional cigarette smoking While initially seemingly innocuous, over 2800 E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases have been reported in ...
Patients who were rehospitalized or who died after being treated for EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use–associated lung injury) were more likely to have been older and to have had at least one chronic illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. In response t...
ABSTRACT: Vaping has become an increasing problem because of the associated lung injury. More middle school and high school students are using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), which has led to adverse events in this population. Vitamin E acetate, a thickening agent used in some e-cigarettes...
As the number of cases of lung injury associated with electronic cigarette use, or vaping, continues to grow, pulmonologists and public health officials are shining a spotlight on the disease, its presentation and ongoing efforts to target the cause. ...
Daniel Becerril | Reuters A vaping-related lung disease has sickened at least 2,051 people and killed 39, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Health officials are calling the disease EVALI, short for e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury. Doctors ...
Vaping-associated lung injury can be difficult to diagnose, unless clinicians and pathologists are armed with information beforehand, Dr. Larsen says. “This is a public health crisis, and a lot of people are working frantically around the clock to find out what the culprit or culprits ...
(HealthDay)—Most patients with electronic cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) reported use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing products in the three months preceding symptom onset, according to research published in the
Many who suffer vaping-related lung damage will have long-term health problems lasting at least a year, a new study reports.