{"id":13938,"date":"2019-10-30T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=13938"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:47:27","slug":"evali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/10\/evali\/","title":{"rendered":"EVALI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a good summary of the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/10\/8\/20899114\/vaping-lung-injury-seizures-explosions-e-cigarette-youth-vaping-flavor-bans\">The Verge<\/a> while medical journals seem to be slow with updates ( there will be a Twitter session today at 4 p.m. ET using the hashtag #ATSChat )<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the United States, regulatory and public health agencies are looking into these three different public health-related problems: exploding e-cigarettes, seizures and lung injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lung injury\u00a0 is the biggest problem<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a press call on October 25th, Schuchat [principal deputy director of the CDC] said that they were now calling the injury EVALI, an acronym for \u201ce-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury.\u201d It\u2019s still not particularly catchy, but slightly better than the longer version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As of October 22, 2019 <strong>1,604 cases<\/strong> have been reported according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/basic_information\/e-cigarettes\/severe-lung-disease.html\">CDC<\/a>.\u00a0I wonder whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerzteblatt.de\/nachrichten\/83026\/Studie-E-Zigaretten-loesen-potenziell-schaedliche-Immunreaktionen-in-der-Lunge-aus\">1,2-propandiole and glycerole<\/a> are responsible for the effect? Heating may lead to formaldehyde and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acrolein\">acrolein<\/a> (an unsaturated aldehyde). But why is the combination with THC so deleterious? Further chemical reactions?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a good summary of the story at The Verge while medical journals seem to be slow with updates ( there will be a Twitter session today at 4 p.m. ET using the hashtag #ATSChat ) In the United States, regulatory and public health agencies are looking into these three different public health-related problems: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/10\/evali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVALI<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3247,3248,2590,3250,3249],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","tag-cdc","tag-injury","tag-lung","tag-nicotine","tag-thc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13977,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}