Liquid vape and its dangers for heart health

Users and producers claim that e-cigarettes are healthier than tobacco or other clove cigarettes sold in the market. This is because tobacco smoke from ordinary cigarettes is thought to cause lung cancer. The smoke component is a carcinogen (can cause cancer) that can cause lung cancer, while nicotine itself has not been confirmed as a carcinogen.

Vape is a cigarette containing liquid vape or liquid with various flavors and does not use tobacco. Then there's no nicotine in it? Wait a minute, the vape liquid still contains nicotine extracted from tobacco. The difference is, this liquid is also mixed with various kinds of flavorings.

So don't be easily lured into by advertisements promising that liquid vape is healthier than regular tobacco cigarettes. A recent study reveals that liquid vape may threaten your heart. How can?

Liquid vape can also harm heart health

A study headed by heart specialist dr. Holly Middlekauff from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States (US) proved that e-cigarettes can actually still cause various dangers to the body. According to dr. Holly Middlekauf, this is because there is still nicotine in the vape liquid.

In the nicotine vapor from e-cigarettes filled with liquid, it was found that there were things that caused increased production and levels of the adrenal hormone. If left alone for a long time, this has the potential to increase the risk of heart attack and sudden death.

Nicotine will trigger the production of the hormone adrenaline. In the body, the hormone adrenaline will usually only increase when you are under threat or stress. This hormone will then increase the heart rate so that blood can flow more swiftly to all parts of the body. Because the heart is forced to work too hard, it ends up with dangerous risks such as a heart attack. Especially if you use liquid vape continuously or regularly. The risk will continue to rise.

Results of abnormal heart rates in research on liquid vapes

Basically, researchers are also not sure whether this heart health problem is caused by nicotine in e-cigarettes or other chemicals contained in vape vapors that come out. So to find out this, dr. Holly Middlekauff and her team tested 33 healthy adults who did not smoke for using e-cigarettes and other types of cigarettes.

The participants were tested in the laboratory three times, by smoking and exhaling smoke from vapes or other types of cigarettes for 30 minutes. It should also be noted, that each one trial session they used a different cigarette. First using liquid vape that contains nicotine, secondly using liquid vape without nicotine content, and finally using a device that is similar to an e-cigarette even though it has no content.

The result, researchers found an abnormal pattern of adrenaline levels after smoking a liquid vape containing nicotine. Nicotine creates a large change in heart rate rhythm by as much as 20 percent and an increase in heart rate by as much as 10 percent.

In addition, according to Aruni Bhatnagar, a spokesperson for the American Heart Association, the findings are a clue that there are some side effects of using liquid vapes that can increase heart rate and blood pressure.

Avoid smoking for your heart health

Christopher Allen, a senior heart nurse at the British Heart Foundation, explained that smoking can cause severe damage to all parts of the body, especially increasing a person's risk of heart attack or stroke. He also argues that e-cigarettes or other electronic cigarettes have not regulated the dosage of other chemicals contained in them. So it is undeniable that this can also add more health risks, the same as the dangers of smoking ordinary tobacco.

Therefore, actually the safest way to protect yourself is to stop smoking. Whether it's electric or not. However, if you are using e-cigarettes for specific purposes such as quitting smoking, choose e-cigarettes that don't contain nicotine.