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Studie belegt: Dampfen schadet der Gesundheit der Atemwege nicht

In der am 17 November 2017 veröffentlichten Studie Health impact of E-cigarettes: a prospective 3.5-year study of regular daily users who have never smoked welche von den Forschern:  Riccardo Polosa, Fabio Cibella, Pasquale Caponnetto, Marilena Maglia, Umberto Prosperini, Cristina Russo & Donald Tashkin  veröffentlicht wurde konnte belegt werden, dass Dampfen keine gesundheitlich negativen Auswirkungen auf die Atemwege hat.

Summary and Conclusions

In a small sample of young-adult never-smoking, daily EC users who were carefully followed for approximately 3½ years, we found no decrements in spirometric indices, development of respiratory symptoms, changes in markers of lung inflammation in exhaled air or findings of early lung damage on HRCT, when compared with a carefully matched group of never-smoking non-EC users. Even the heaviest EC users failed to exhibit any evidence of emerging lung injury as reflected in these physiologic, clinical or inflammatory measures. Moreover, no changes were noted in blood pressure or heart rate. Since the EC users who we studied were never smokers, potential confounding by inhalation of combustion products of tobacco were obviated.

While the sample size was small, the results of this study may provide some preliminary evidence that long-term use of ECs is unlikely to raise significant health concerns in relatively young users. Further studies in a larger sample of EC users with and without a history of tobacco smoking are warranted.

Riccardo Polosa, Fabio Cibella, Pasquale Caponnetto, Marilena Maglia, Umberto Prosperini, Cristina Russo & Donald Tashkin 

Anmerkung der Autorin:

Hier wurde im kleinen nachgewiesen, daß das Dampfen eben doch eindeutig sehr viel weniger gesundheitsgefährdend ist als bisher durch die WHO und andere propagiert wird. Nachteil an dieser Studie ist die „überschaubare“ Anzahl an Probanten, welche aber wohl eher in der Tatsache begründet liegt, das Dampfer sich aus Ex-Rauchern rekrutieren.