Vaping, a risk factor for COVID-19 infection in adolescents and young adults?
14 August 2020
Par: communication@cnct.fr
Dernière mise à jour: 14 August 2020
Temps de lecture: 2 minutes
A recent study[1] (Stanford University School of Medicine) observed in the United States a frequency of COVID-19 infection five to seven times higher among adolescents and young adults who vape.
Online surveys conducted in May among 4,351 participants aged 13 to 24 living in all US states and territories made it possible to form two groups with identical profiles (age, sex, geographic origin) except for the use or not of electronic cigarettes, possibly associated with that of smoked tobacco.
Young people who had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days tested positive for COVID-19 about five times more often than those who did not vape, and those who had used both e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes in the same period tested positive nearly seven times more often.
This research does not concern the severity of covid 19 disease, unlike other previous studies[2]-[3] strongly suggesting that smoking tobacco increases the risk of developing a severe form of the disease, once the smoker is infected with the virus.
At this point, there is no simple explanation for this observation; it is possible that the repeated mouth and face contact associated with vaping plays a role. The Stanford researchers say their findings should prompt the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to tighten regulations governing the sale of vaping products to youth.
Keywords: Vaping, Covid19, young people, health
©Tobacco Free Generation[1] Shivani Mathur Gaiha, Ph.D; Jing Cheng, Ph.D; Bonnie Halpern-Fisher, Ph.D; Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019, Journal of Adolescent Health, USA, August 11, 2020, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.07.002 [2] Yuan Liu, Zhi Ning et al, BiorXiv , Aerodynamic Characteristics and RNA Concentration of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol in Wuhan Hospitals during COVID-19 Outbreak,, March 2020 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.08.982637v1, [3] Aerosol and surface stability of SARS-Cov-2 as compared with SARS-Cov-1, Correspondence New England Journal of Medicine, March 2020, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 . National Committee Against Smoking |