Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ECs) and COVID-19: the perfect storm for young consumers
Autor: | Alejandro Ruiz-Patiño, Luis Pino, C Pérez, A Piotrostanalzki, Gilberto Lopes, Andrés F. Cardona, I Triana |
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Přispěvatelé: | Cardona-Mendoza, Andrés Felipe [0000-0002-6697-5471] |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Risk medicine.medical_specialty 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Cancer Research Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Review Article Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Pulmonary infection Pandemic Risk of mortality Medicine Humans Intensive care medicine Pulmonologists business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Vaping Macrophages COVID-19 General Medicine Pulmonary Alveoli 030104 developmental biology Nicotine delivery Oncology Viral infection 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Electronic cigarettes SARS-CoV2 Disease Susceptibility business Healthcare system |
Zdroj: | Clinical and Translational Oncology Repositorio U. El Bosque Universidad El Bosque instacron:Universidad El Bosque Clinical & Translational Oncology |
ISSN: | 1699-3055 1699-048X |
DOI: | 10.1007/s12094-020-02391-x |
Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic caused a change in our society and put health systems in crisis worldwide. Different risk factors and comorbidities have been found that increase the risk of mortality when acquiring this infection. The use of alternative devices to the cigarette like the electronic cigarettes, the vapers have been studied widely and generators of great controversy since it has been discovered that they also produce different pulmonary affections. When developing the SARS-CoV2 infection, different theories have been generated about the greater predisposition to a worse prognosis of people who use electronic cigarettes; however, the information on this continues in discovery. A group of experts made up of oncologists, infectologists, pulmonologists, and epidemiologists met to review the literature and then generate theories about the impact of electronic cigarettes on SARS-CoV2 infection. |
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