The warning comes amid a U.S.-wide outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries.
Study co-author Dr. Sana Majid, a postdoctoral fellow in vascular biology at the Boston University School of Medicine, commented in a statement:"Although primary care providers and patients may think that the use of e-cigarettes by cigarette smokers makes heart health sense, our study shows e-cigarette use is also related to differences in cholesterol levels. The best option is to use FDA-approved methods to aid in smoking cessation, along with behavioral counseling.
Dr. Susan Cheng, director of Public Health Research, also of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said in a statement her team was surprised to find the heart's blood flow was reduced at rest, even in the absence of stress, after vaping. The impacts measured are known to be precursors to coronary atherosclerosis, where plaque builds up in the arteries, and coronary heart disease, he said."This means that people who switched to electronic cigarettes from traditional tobacco cigarettes may not see a decline in their risk of coronary heart disease," he warned.
"This suggests that electronic cigarettes may have much greater negative impact on coronary disease risk [than has ever] been imagined, and possibly comparable to tobacco cigarettes," he said. "But these new studies give us reason to think that with enough time we may start seeing similar cardiovascular effects from chronic electronic cigarette use as we had seen from traditional cigarette use. Only time and much more research will tell."
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