Electronic cigarette smoking can create toxic chemicals that damage blood vessels

According to a new study, electronic drugs can create dangerous toxins that temporarily reduce blood flow and damage blood vessels.

While the dangers of smoking have been clearly defined, the health effects of electronic cigarette smoking are unclear. However, recently, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an investigation into a string of e-cigarette-related diseases that brought nearly 100 people to the hospital.

Researchers have just issued a warning about using Vape.

The researchers actually want to investigate the impact of electronic cigarettes on the blood vessels and blood circulation of the body. To do this, they recruited 31 healthy adults without smoking; The researchers tied a tight cuff around each participant's thigh. They kept this 'cuffs' for a few minutes, limiting blood flow through the main vein and arteries in the legs, called the femoral and vein femoral arteries.

The researchers then removed the cuff and used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure the blood flow of participants. Normally, when blood is restricted in this way, there will be a need to increase blood flow when removing the cuff, because tissue is deficient in oxygen and nutrients, senior author Felix Wehrli, professor of radiation science and birth. reasoning said.

Researchers found that when they removed the cuff, participants' blood flowed much faster, reaching a maximum speed before returning to normal after a minute. Next, the participants took 16 electronic cigarette devices for nicotine-free use and again had a cuff attached to their legs and their blood vessels were taken.

After using e-cigarettes, the participants' blood vessels did not expand, or expand as much as before, to allow blood to pass through. In fact, after a participant smoked, the vessels dilated, on average, 34% less than before using the drug as electronics. Furthermore, the blood speed increased by 25.8%, the highest blood flow - maximum blood flow through the blood vessels was reduced by 17.5% and oxygen levels in the vessels decreased by 20%.

The findings suggest that using electronic cigarettes even once, leads to temporary changes in vascular function decline, the authors said.

"This normal blood circulation reaction is reduced by e-cigarette exposure and the reason may be because of the components in electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes have many brands and aromas and so they may have a huge list of ingredients, but the basic ingredients, propylene glycol and glycerol, are quite similar , "Wehrli said.

When propylene glycol and glycerol are heated to high temperatures, they form other substances known to be toxic. In a recent report, a research team showed that e-cigarette smoking actually causes "toxic immune reactions" in the endothelium, or vascular mucosa.

However, these studies only consider the very short-term effects of the use of electronic cigarettes and the blood vessels of participants returned to normal within an hour or so, Wehrli said. So, "the effect we see is transitory , " he added.

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