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Tinder Posts Ad For ‘VP Of Ghosting’: Here Are Some Of The Best April Fools’ Pranks By Companies In 2024Vapes containing nicotine may increase the risk of heart failure, according to a new study, adding on to previous research that found vaping may increase the risk of heart disease, worsen blood pressure and heart rate, and cause several lung-related health issues.
The researchers found the increased risk associated with vaping was more prominent in a type of heart failure called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction , which causes the heart muscle to become stiff and not properly fill with blood between each beat . The researchers tracked 175,667 participants—over 60% female with an average age of 52—over the course of 45 months using health records from the National Institutes of Health.
Of those participants, 3,242 developed heart failure within the 45-month period, and the study found no evidence to suggest other factors—including age, sex or whether they smoked cigarettes—impacted the study.“More and more studies are linking e-cigarettes to harmful effects and finding that it might not be as safe as previously thought,” Yakubu Bene-Alhasan, the study’s lead author and a resident physician at MedStar Health in Baltimore, said in a statement.
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