UK Study: Switching From Smoking To Vaping Improves Heart Health

Source from:  Vapingpost 08/12/2020

Contrary to recent claims by the American Heart Association, researchers from Britain's Dundee University, found that chronic smokers who rapidly switched from smoking to vaping, saw a significant improvement in markers of heart health after just a month.

“By switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes we found an average percentage point improvement of 1.5 within just one month,” said professor of cardiovascular medicine and therapeutics at Britain’s Dundee University, Jacob George, in a briefing about the study. “And to put that into context, each percentage point improvement in vascular function results in a 13% reduction in cardiovascular event rates, such as heart attack.”

Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, this study will likely be scrutinized by health experts around the world, especially given recent claims. A week prior to the release of the above, research findings presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2019, which to date remain unpublished in any peer-reviewed journal, suggested that e-cigarettes have a negative effect on cholesterol levels, and therefore also on heart and brain health.

The AHA findings indicated that the 45 participants who vaped, had lower total cholesterol and higher LDL (bad) cholesterol, while those who both vaped and smoked had lower “good” cholesterol levels. This is not the first time that a study is linking vaping and heart disease based solely on correlations.

This particular study found a cross-sectional association between e-cigarette use and riskier lipoprotein (cholesterol) profiles, and based solely on that cross-sectional correlation, the investigators concluded that vaping increases “bad” cholesterol levels and has a detrimental effect on cardiovascular health.  Enditem