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Everyone seems to be doing this these days.<\/p>\nEveryone seems to be doing this these days.<\/p>\n
Most claim it\u2019s healthy\u2014or at least healthier than the alternative.<\/p>\n
Everyone who does it swears it\u2019s pleasurable.<\/p>\n
But a new study in the American Journal of Medicine Open<\/em> reveals that this is extremely dangerous for osteoporosis. And it can raise your risk of fragility bone fractures by a terrifying 46%.<\/p>\n Conventional cigarette smoking is a definite, proven causal factor behind osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture, but the authors of this new study wanted to find out whether there was a relationship between electronic cigarette smoking and fragility fractures.<\/p>\n Fragility fractures occur when bones break after only a minimal amount of pressure, such as breaking a hip or wrist when falling from a standing height.<\/p>\n In other words, this is the kind of thing you expect to happen to frail elderly people.<\/p>\n The seed for the study was sewn when one of the lead researchers had to perform femoral neck fracture surgery on a patient who reported using electronic cigarettes to quit smoking.<\/p>\n The researchers obtained their information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n They were interested in all of the patients for whom complete information was available: smoking status, smoking type, bone fractures, and selected other health and social demographic data.<\/p>\n In their sample of 5,569 subjects, 81.2% had never smoked e-cigarettes while 18.8% had used them at some point in their lives; 8% of them had suffered fragility fractures.<\/p>\n Those who had used or were using e-cigarettes were 46% more likely than never-users were to suffer fragility fractures.<\/p>\n The risk for former users was just as high as that of current users, so quitting your e-cigarettes won\u2019t even reduce your risk.<\/p>\n