People with asthma who vape tend to develop the respiratory disease earlier in life than folks who never vaped, new research shows.
Overall, asthmatic adults who said they'd vaped over the past month were over three times as likely to have developed asthma relatively early in life (before the age of 27) compared to folks who never vaped, said a team reporting the findings Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
According to the researchers, "harmful chemical ingredients found in electronic nicotine delivery systems have been found to affect pulmonary function and may have the potential to affect respiratory health," perhaps including the triggering of asthma.
The study was led by Adriana Pérez, of the department of biostatistics and data science at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
