ArticleThorax2024
Prospective study of e-cigarette use and respiratory symptoms in adolescents and young adults.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Population-Based Disease Odds for E-Cigarettes and Dual Use versus Cigarettes.NEJM evidence · 2024Pooled it
- Comparison of e-Cigarette and Cigarette Use and Dual Use Associations With Disease: Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Pooled it
- Adverse symptoms attributed to e-cigarettes over 6 months among participants of a randomized controlled trial testing nicotine free-base e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: secondary analysis of the ESTxENDS trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Trial
- Ferroptosis in e-cigarette aerosol-associated respiratory injury.Archives of toxicology · 2026Review
- Why Adolescents Choose to Stop or Never Start Vaping: Evidence From South Africa.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Respiratory symptoms and exercise responses among adult E-cigarette users with and without obesity.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- E-Cigarette Use Trajectories and Respiratory Symptoms in Adolescents and Young Adults: Sustained Use Linked to Greater Symptom Frequency.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Prevalence of adverse respiratory symptoms among e-cigarette users at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2026Article
- Reasons to quit cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and smokeless nicotine products: A cross-sectional study among Danish people aged 15-29 years.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026Article
- Comprehensive E-Cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use Among Youth and Adults.Health economics · 2025Article
- Exploring youth vaping in New Zealand intermediate and high schools: a mixed-methods study protocol.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A Pilot Study on the Impact of Vaping on Adolescent Lung Function and Nasal Epithelial Gene Expression.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- Adolescents' perceptions, experiences, and reactions to "fake" vaping devices.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Pulmonary function and physical performance in adolescent e-cigarette users: a narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- The association between electronic cigarette use and respiratory symptoms among university students: A cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Review
- Vaping Possible Negative Effects on Lungs: State-of-the-Art From Lung Capacity Alteration to Cancer.Cureus · 2024Review
- Multidisciplinary approaches in electronic nicotine delivery systems pulmonary toxicology: emergence of living and non-living bioinspired engineered systems.Communications engineering · 2024Review
- Longitudinal associations between exclusive, dual and polytobacco use and respiratory illness among youth.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Current perspective on e-cigarette use and respiratory outcomes: mechanisms and messaging.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
rationaleElectronic cigarette (e-cigarette) aerosol contains volatile aldehydes, including flavourings and oxidant metals with known pulmonary toxicity.
objectivesTo evaluate the associations of e-cigarette use with symptoms of wheeze, bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath (SOB) across 4 years of prospective data.
methodsParticipants completed questionnaires on respiratory symptoms and past 30-day e-cigarette, cigarette and cannabis use in 2014 (wave 1; N=2094; mean age 17.3 years, SD=0.6 years). Follow-up information was collected in 2015 (wave 2; n=1609), 2017 (wave 3; n=1502) and 2018 (wave 4; n=1637) using online surveys. Mixed-effects logistic regression models evaluated associations of e-cigarette use with respiratory symptoms. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsParticipants were mostly Hispanic white (51.8%) and evenly representative by sex (49.6% female; 50.4% male). Compared with never e-cigarette users, past 30-day e-cigarette users reported increased odds of wheeze (OR 1.81; 95% CI 1.28, 2.56), bronchitic symptoms (OR 2.06; 95% CI 1.58, 2.69) and SOB (OR 1.78; 95% CI 1.23, 2.57), adjusting for study wave, age, sex, race, lifetime asthma diagnosis and parental education. Effect estimates were attenuated (wheeze (OR 1.41; 95% CI 0.99, 2.01), bronchitic symptoms (OR 1.55; 95% CI 1.18, 2.05), SOB (OR 1.48; 95% CI 1.01, 2.18)), after adjusting additionally for current cigarette use, cannabis use and secondhand exposure to e-cigarettes/cigarettes/cannabis.
conclusionsE-cigarette use in young adults was associated with respiratory symptoms, independent of combustible cannabis and cigarette exposures.
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