A Brief Overview of the National Outbreak of e-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury and the Primary Causes

Affiliations

¹ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: eakiern@emory.edu.
² Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
³ National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁴ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁵ National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
⁶ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁷ National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁸ National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

Review

Emily Kiernan et al. Chest. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;159(1):426-431.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.07.068. Epub 2020 Aug 3.

¹ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: eakiern@emory.edu.
² Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
³ National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁴ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁵ National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
⁶ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁷ National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
⁸ National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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Keywords: EVALI; acute lung injury; e-cigarette; toxicology; vitamin E acetate.

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