A new study has shown that smoking and smoking electronic cigarettes can cause severe corona infection even in healthy people. According to this study published in the Journal of Molecular Medicine, smoking as well as vaping (smoking an electronic cigarette), along with increasing the problem of inflammation in people, can also increase the risk of severe Covid-19 infection. Not only this, complications related to the heart that occur after infection can also increase rapidly.
Lead author of the study and Associate Professor of Medicine at the US-based University of California, Dr Theodorus Kelesidis, said that smoking is injurious to health, but electronic cigarettes can also harm health on a large scale. He said that smoking and electronic cigarettes have been linked to many lung diseases, but never linked to corona. It is quite interesting and a new finding that electronic cigarette alters the level of a key protein and uses it to replicate the virus.
E-cigarette smokers are at risk of these diseases
In examining plasma collected before the pandemic from 45 non-smokers, 30 electronic cigarette vapers and 29 smokers (tobacco), the researchers measured levels of a protein essential to the return of the virus SARS-CoV-2. maybe responsible. These proteins include ACE2, Furin, Ang II, Ang 1-7, IL-6R, sCD163 and L-selectin. The latter three proteins are controlled in cells by a protein called ADAM17.
The researchers found that the levels of furin, sCD163 and L-selectin were found to be higher in the plasma of healthy youth who smoke tobacco or smoke electronic cigarettes than in the plasma of non-smokers. Kelesidis said that people who smoke e-cigarettes are at a higher risk of developing lung infections and complications associated with inflammation. Because electronic cigarettes are very harmful to health.
