{"id":20,"date":"2020-04-29T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/?p=20"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:53:09","slug":"e-cigarette-users-experience-vascular-damage-similar-to-combustible-cigarette-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/2020\/04\/29\/e-cigarette-users-experience-vascular-damage-similar-to-combustible-cigarette-smokers\/","title":{"rendered":"E-cigarette Users Experience Vascular Damage Similar to Combustible cigarette Smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Using e-cigarettes damages the arteries and blood vessel function much like smoking traditional cigarettes, according to new research published today in\u00a0the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/journal\/jaha\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Journal of the American Heart Association<\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, \u00a0which was \u00a0funded through the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/professional.heart.org\/professional\/ResearchPrograms\/A-TRAC\/UCM_459406_A-TRAC-Home.jsp\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">of the American Heart Association (AHA).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/files\/2015\/09\/Jessica-Fetterman-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-83463\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" \/>\u201cMany people believe e-cigarettes are safer than combustible cigarettes. In fact, most e-cigarette users say the primary reason they use e-cigarettes is because they think e-cigarettes pose less of a health risk,\u201d said study author Jessica L. Fetterman, PhD, assistant professor of medicine. \u201cMeanwhile, the evidence from scientific studies is growing that e-cigarettes might not be the safer alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes when it comes to heart health. Our study adds to that evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More in the BUSM Story by Lisa Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using e-cigarettes damages the arteries and blood vessel function much like smoking traditional cigarettes, according to new research published today in\u00a0the\u00a0Journal of the American Heart Association, \u00a0which was \u00a0funded through the\u00a0Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science\u00a0of the American Heart Association (AHA). \u201cMany people believe e-cigarettes are safer than combustible cigarettes. In fact, most e-cigarette users say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/vascularbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}