Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration

Background The current study, part of the EU H2020 funded TackSHS project, aimed to test the hypothesis that passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions provokes systemic symptoms and to determine their severity and timing. Methods 30 nonsmokers, 18-35 years old, BMI< 30, with no significant medica...

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Autores: Tzortzi, Anna, Teloniatis, Stephanie, Mattiampa, George, Bakellas, Gerasimos, Vyzikidou, Vergina, Tzavara, Chara, Vardavas, Constantine I., Fernández Muñoz, Esteve, Behrakis, Panagiotis
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Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
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Palabra clave:Hàbit de fumar
Efectes fisiològics
Smoking
Physiological effect
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spelling Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and durationTzortzi, AnnaTeloniatis, StephanieMattiampa, GeorgeBakellas, GerasimosVyzikidou, VerginaTzavara, CharaVardavas, Constantine I.Fernández Muñoz, EsteveBehrakis, PanagiotisHàbit de fumarEfectes fisiològicsSmokingPhysiological effectBackground The current study, part of the EU H2020 funded TackSHS project, aimed to test the hypothesis that passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions provokes systemic symptoms and to determine their severity and timing. Methods 30 nonsmokers, 18-35 years old, BMI< 30, with no significant medical history, no medications, normal physical examination and spirometry, were passively exposed in a 35m 3 room, during a 30-minute Control (no passive smoking) and Experimental (standardized e-cigarette smoking by a human smoker) session. PM 2.5 concentrations were 0.027 mg/m 3 and 3.3 mg/m 3 during the Control and Experimental sessions, respectively. Participants completed an irritation questionnaire, grading symptom severity at T 0 (pre-exposure), T 15 (midway), T 30 (exposure endpoint) and T 60 (30-minute post-exposure) in both sessions. The questionnaire showed internal consistency (Cronbach's α>0.70). Scores 1-5 were generated for the environmental, ocular, nasal, airway and general complaints by adding symptoms per system. Analysis was performed using Wilcoxon-signed rank sum test and Spearman correlation (p< 0.05). Results The most frequent and intense symptoms reported were mild eye burning, nasal and airway dryness. Ocular irritation score gradually increased from T 0 reaching a significant increase by T 30 (p=0.034). Nasal score increased significantly from T 0 to T 15 (p=0.008) and remained significantly higher at T 30 . Airway irritation score increased significantly from T 0 to T 15 (p=0.004) and furthermore from T 15 to T 30 (p=0.018). All symptoms returned to T 0 scores by T 60 (p>0.05). The increased scores for ocular, nasal and airway complaints were positively correlated with increased environmental scores at T 15 and T 30 . General complaint scores showed a tendency to increase at T 30 that was positively correlated with increased environmental scores at T 30 . Conclusions Short-term exposure of nonsmokers to e-cigarette emissions resulted in mild ocular, nasal and airway symptoms that persisted up to 30 minutes and were positively correlated with environmental indices. Further research is needed to investigate long-term health implications.European Publishing2018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/172809Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL))reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/84038Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018-01-01, Vol. 16, P. 97-97https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/84038cc by (c) Tzortzi, Anna et al., 2018http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1728092026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
title Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
spellingShingle Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
Tzortzi, Anna
Hàbit de fumar
Efectes fisiològics
Smoking
Physiological effect
title_short Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
title_full Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
title_fullStr Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
title_full_unstemmed Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
title_sort Passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions: irritation symptoms, severity and duration
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Tzortzi, Anna
Teloniatis, Stephanie
Mattiampa, George
Bakellas, Gerasimos
Vyzikidou, Vergina
Tzavara, Chara
Vardavas, Constantine I.
Fernández Muñoz, Esteve
Behrakis, Panagiotis
author Tzortzi, Anna
author_facet Tzortzi, Anna
Teloniatis, Stephanie
Mattiampa, George
Bakellas, Gerasimos
Vyzikidou, Vergina
Tzavara, Chara
Vardavas, Constantine I.
Fernández Muñoz, Esteve
Behrakis, Panagiotis
author_role author
author2 Teloniatis, Stephanie
Mattiampa, George
Bakellas, Gerasimos
Vyzikidou, Vergina
Tzavara, Chara
Vardavas, Constantine I.
Fernández Muñoz, Esteve
Behrakis, Panagiotis
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Hàbit de fumar
Efectes fisiològics
Smoking
Physiological effect
topic Hàbit de fumar
Efectes fisiològics
Smoking
Physiological effect
description Background The current study, part of the EU H2020 funded TackSHS project, aimed to test the hypothesis that passive exposure to e-cigarette emissions provokes systemic symptoms and to determine their severity and timing. Methods 30 nonsmokers, 18-35 years old, BMI< 30, with no significant medical history, no medications, normal physical examination and spirometry, were passively exposed in a 35m 3 room, during a 30-minute Control (no passive smoking) and Experimental (standardized e-cigarette smoking by a human smoker) session. PM 2.5 concentrations were 0.027 mg/m 3 and 3.3 mg/m 3 during the Control and Experimental sessions, respectively. Participants completed an irritation questionnaire, grading symptom severity at T 0 (pre-exposure), T 15 (midway), T 30 (exposure endpoint) and T 60 (30-minute post-exposure) in both sessions. The questionnaire showed internal consistency (Cronbach's α>0.70). Scores 1-5 were generated for the environmental, ocular, nasal, airway and general complaints by adding symptoms per system. Analysis was performed using Wilcoxon-signed rank sum test and Spearman correlation (p< 0.05). Results The most frequent and intense symptoms reported were mild eye burning, nasal and airway dryness. Ocular irritation score gradually increased from T 0 reaching a significant increase by T 30 (p=0.034). Nasal score increased significantly from T 0 to T 15 (p=0.008) and remained significantly higher at T 30 . Airway irritation score increased significantly from T 0 to T 15 (p=0.004) and furthermore from T 15 to T 30 (p=0.018). All symptoms returned to T 0 scores by T 60 (p>0.05). The increased scores for ocular, nasal and airway complaints were positively correlated with increased environmental scores at T 15 and T 30 . General complaint scores showed a tendency to increase at T 30 that was positively correlated with increased environmental scores at T 30 . Conclusions Short-term exposure of nonsmokers to e-cigarette emissions resulted in mild ocular, nasal and airway symptoms that persisted up to 30 minutes and were positively correlated with environmental indices. Further research is needed to investigate long-term health implications.
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