A recent clinical study released its findings in August according to many reports. These findings show electronic cigarettes pose little threat to the heart.

“Electronic cigarettes are not a healthy habit but they are a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes,” Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens told the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology.

Farsalinos and his group studied the effects, before and after, of regular cigarettes on 20 young adults and the effects, before and after, of e-cigarettes on 22 young adults for 7 minutes.

“Considering the extreme hazards associated with cigarette smoking, currently available data suggest that electronic cigarettes are far less harmful and substituting tobacco with electronic cigarettes may be beneficial to health.”

While the smokers of regular cigarettes suffered significant heart dysfunction, including raised blood pressure and heart rate, the e-cigarette users showed only a slight increase in pressure.

Farsalinos admits further studies are needed to determine any possible long term effects of these devices. Since this is the first study of possible effects of e-cigarettes on the heart, it’s good to see steps are being taken. Others are a bit more cautious.

“Obviously, the e-cigarette has the advantage of not having the thousands of other chemicals, besides nicotine, that a real cigarette has,” said Dr. Russell Luepker of the University of Minnesota.

“I don’t think it’s conclusive but there’s no doubt if you expose someone to fewer bioactive chemical compounds there is going to be less effect.”

These findings were presented at a medical conference. They should be considered preliminary, as they have not yet undergone the “peer review” process, in which outside experts scrutinize the data prior to publication in a medical journal.

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