Are E-Cigarettes Good For Your Heart Health?

Smoking is on the rise in the form of E-cigarettes.

They have been touted to be a healthier alternative to smoking tobacco, but researchers are getting increasingly concerned about their effects on cardiovascular health.

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have just published a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that may put this question to rest.

They collected information was obtained from 69,452 people by the National Health Interview Surveys in 2014 and 2016.

This information included the participant’s past and present smoking habits, as well as their reports on doctor’s visits and, particularly, on whether any medical specialist have found evidence that they lead to heart attacks.

These are their findings:

1. Daily cigarette users are 172% more likely to have a heart attack compared to non-smokers.

2. Daily e-cigarette users are 79% more likely to have a heart attack compared to non-smokers.

3. Former cigarette smokers are 70% more likely to suffer a heart attack compared to non-smokers are, while former e-cigarette users have no increased risks.

4. People who smoke cigarettes only on some days had a 136% greater risk of heart attack compared to non-smokers, while some-day e-cigarette smokers have no increased risk.

5. People who smoke both cigarettes and e-cigarettes daily have an approximately 460% greater chance of a heart attack than people who smoke neither.

Therefore, while not as harmful as conventional cigarettes, daily e-cigarette use can be extremely unhealthy.

Moreover, replacing some of your conventional cigarettes with e- cigarettes, which is the most common pattern of e-cigarette use, is the unhealthiest smoking pattern amongst all the variants of the habit.

The only upside for smokers of e-cigarettes appear to be that quitting reverses the harmful effects. However, authors warned that their results may have been skewed by the fact that e-cigarettes have not been available for a long enough period to allow for definite conclusions.

To avoid heart attack, the main thing would to remove cholesterol plaque from your arteries. And the only way to do that would be to cut out this one ingredient you didn’t even know you were consuming…