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Vaping is better than smoking, but quitting smoking is the best

No vaping is even better for your heart

16-Nov-2019

Key points from article :

Smokers can improve cardiac health within weeks of switching to e-cigarettes.

Monitored people's blood vessels a month after switching to e-cigarettes.

Vascular function improved significantly, within a month compared to those who continued to smoke.

Therefore vaping has the potential to reduce heart attack and stroke risk to a certain extent.

But it did not restore vascular function back to normal.

Refraining from all forms of smoking is the best course of action to protect the heart.

The month-long trial involved 114 smokers.

Research by University of Dundee, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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British Heart Foundation (BHF)

Charity organization researching heart and circulatory diseases

Jacob George

Professor of cardiovascular medicine at University of Dundee

Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)

Scientific Journal providing information about cardiovascular diesases

University of Dundee

Founded in 1967, University of Dundee is a public research unversity in Scotland. It is considered a top university in the world.

Topics mentioned on this page:
Smoking, Heart Disease