Deans' stroke musings: E-cigarettes Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Cigarettes

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

E-cigarettes Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Cigarettes

Be careful out there.
You may not want to get your nicotine this way for your post-stroke recovery. 34 posts on nicotine which your doctor will know zilch about. Time for you to train your doctor again. I'm going to do the nicotine patches for my next stroke even though I have no clue on dosage. Don't listen to me with no medical training.
http://www.strokesmart.org/ECigarettes

Posted by Lynn Bronikowski

Jul 11 2018

Think you’re off the hook for cardiovascular disease by switching to e-cigarettes? Think again. A new study suggests that e-cigarettes containing nicotine are just as unhealthy as regular cigarettes.

In fact, e-cigarettes may pose an even greater risk of cardiovascular elevation for prolonged periods which can lead to heart attack and stroke.

"The increased parameters within the nicotine containing devices might be a link to an increased cardiovascular risk which is well known for cigarettes,” said the study authors out of Germany.

Smoking doubles the risk of stroke when compared to a non-smoker, as smoking reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood, causing the heart to work harder and allowing blood clots to form more easily. Smoking also increases the amount of build-up in the arteries which may block the flow of blood to the brain, causing a stroke.

In their study, researchers monitored for two hours each participant’s vitals during and after they had smoked a cigarette, e-cigarette, or nictotine-free cigarette. Researchers found that using e-cigarettes and cigarettes, in comparison to nicotine-free e-cigarettes, had the same significant impact on vitals, with participants’ blood pressure and heart rate being affected.

Blood pressure was raised significantly for 45 minutes after using an e-cigarette and 15 minutes after smoking a cigarette. High blood pressure is a leading cause of stroke.

As one of the first trials studying blood pressure and heart rate elevation in relation to e-cigarette use, the authors emphasized the need for further studies.

"Future trials should focus on chronic effects of vaping nicotine-containing or nicotine free liquids on peripheral and central blood pressures as well as on arterial stiffness,” they wrote. “Since no endothelial dysfunction nor gender differences were described for three different arms in literature, it would be important for future trials to address these items."

Along with highlighting further areas of discussion the study has provided clear evidence of the potential cardiovascular issues from acute e-cigarette use and diminishes the common thought that e-cigarettes are a lower risk than tobacco products.