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THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Use of electronic cigarettes by teens is not significantly associated with wheezing, according to a study published online Oct. 13 in JAMA Network Open<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Alayna P. Tackett, Ph.D., from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues examined the association between e-cigarette use and self-reported wheezing among 7,049 U.S. adolescents (ages 12 to 17 years) participating in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study (Oct. 19, 2015, to Jan. 3, 2018).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that the odds of wheezing in the past 12 months were higher for youths who had used e-cigarettes in the past year compared with those who had not (odds ratio [OR], 1.74; P = 0.003). When adjusting for race\/ethnicity, household rules about the use of tobacco, contact with a smoker in the previous seven days, and current use of combustible tobacco products, the association of e-cigarette use with wheezing was no longer significant (adjusted OR for e-cigarette use in the past year: 1.37; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.91 to 2.05; adjusted OR for e-cigarette use in the past 30 days: 1.35; 95 percent CI, 0.63 to 2.88; adjusted OR for e-cigarette use in the past seven days: 0.74; 95 percent CI, 0.28 to 1.97; P = 0.33).<\/p>\n
“The findings suggest that other risk factors, including secondhand smoke exposure, may be associated with the development of negative respiratory symptoms among adolescents,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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