The use of e-cigarettes (vaping) is linked to lung injury in young adults in two US states
The use of e-cigarettes is known to expose users to harmful substances, and it has risen sharply in US high school students since 2017, although the health risks to this specific group of users are not known.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Illinois Department of Public Health investigated cases of young adults admitted to hospital with acute pulmonary disease between June and August 2019 that were linked to recent e-cigarette use in 53 cases. They were able to define a syndrome of similar symptoms, whose pathological mechanisms remain to be investigated.
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Stower, H. A new vaping-induced syndrome. Nat Med 25, 1469 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0617-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0617-x
