We know that the rising number of deaths from heart disease among men and women in the prime of life is related to cigarette smoking
3 It is therefore unlikely that they are triggered by e-cigarettes
Police officers approached James Mark Popp as he sat on the passenger side of the front seat of a vehicle in the parking lot of a bar in Coeur dAlene, Idaho
Clinical research has shown that e-cigarettes can cause oxidative stress, mutations, dysfunction of heart cells, inflammation of the blood vessels, dysfunction of the endothelium (inner lining of the blood vessels), vasospasm (narrowing of the blood vessels), aggregation of platelets and increased risk of blood clots , hypertension (high blood pressure), tachycardia (increased heart rate), stiffening of the arteries, atherosclerosis (cholesterol deposition in the arteries), and increased risk of myocardial infarction ( heart attack )