{"id":20422,"date":"2025-01-31T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/?p=20422"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T13:23:39","slug":"vaping-is-not-associated-with-long-covid-while-smoking-is-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/vaping-is-not-associated-with-long-covid-while-smoking-is-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaping is NOT associated with long Covid while smoking IS, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vaping is not a risk factor for the development of long Covid, a major new study has found. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Covid-19 pandemic caused many sufferers to experience long-lasting symptoms including fatigue, breathlessness and cognitive issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both smoking and vaping have previously been associated with a higher risk of post-acute Covid-19 syndrome (PCS) – more commonly known as \u2018long Covid.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, a new scientific report<\/a> published in the journal Nature has revealed that vaping is in fact not a risk factor for PCS (which is defined as having Covid-19 symptoms for more than three months).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis cross-sectional study of a nationally representative population of U.S. adults found no independent association between current or former e-cigarette use and PCS.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Smokers more likely to experience long Covid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile it found that smokers were 21 per cent more likely to experience symptoms of PCS than those who had never smoked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other factors that put participants at higher risk of PCS included being female, white, overweight, having depression or anxiety, and being diagnosed with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – usually caused by smoking). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study analysed data from 107,249 adults across the U.S who had tested positive for Covid-19 in 2022, of which 23,335 (21.72 per cent) said they had experienced PCS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It concluded: \u201cThe results showed that female gender, obesity, current smoking, and a history of depression, asthma, and COPD were significantly associated with higher odds of PCS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNevertheless, e-cigarette use was not related significantly to increased odds for PCS… In conclusion our findings did not reveal an independent or indirect association between PCS with e-cigarette use.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The researchers said previous studies that had linked vaping to PCS may have failed to properly account for the other variables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said: \u201cOur study is the first to refute any independent association between e-cigarette use and PCS in a large population of 107,249 participants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInterestingly, e-cigarette use was significantly associated with PCS before adjustment, yet this association dissipated after adjustment. This may be due to e-cigarette users either being former smokers or dual users, having a history of COPD or having a history of asthma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switching to vaping from smoking could reduce risk <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study concluded that its findings suggest switching to vaping from smoking could decrease the risk of ongoing Covid-19 symptoms. However, previous smokers were found to be at higher risk than those who had never smoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said the findings \u201chighlight the more detrimental effects tobacco smoking and other risk factors have in comparison to e-cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGiven that cigarettes are an established risk factor for PCS, switching to e-cigarettes may be a viable option to reduce susceptibility to PCS, although former smoking was still associated with PCS in our study,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reduced inflammatory response caused by e-cigarette smoke compared to cigarette smoke in preclinical studies supports the less detrimental effect of e-cigarettes compared to cigarette smoking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vaping is not a risk factor for the development of long Covid, a major new study has found.  The Covid-19 pandemic caused many sufferers to experience long-lasting symptoms including fatigue, breathlessness and cognitive issues.  Both smoking and vaping have previously been associated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990002,"featured_media":20423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,259],"tags":[],"slider":[],"class_list":["post-20422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20429,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422\/revisions\/20429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20422"},{"taxonomy":"slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/slider?post=20422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}