Vaping Versus Smoking: Are Electronic-Cigarettes the Savior?

David Bernhard^{1

2

3}, Barbara Messner⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pathophysiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology (D.B.).
² Medical Faculty, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria (D.B.).
³ Clinical Research Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Medical Faculty, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria (D.B.).
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Medical University of Vienna, Austria (B.M.).

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David Bernhard et al. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2024 May.

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. 2024 May;44(5):1012-1015.

doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.123.319575. Epub 2024 Apr 24.

David Bernhard^{1

2

3}, Barbara Messner⁴

¹ Division of Pathophysiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology (D.B.).
² Medical Faculty, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria (D.B.).
³ Clinical Research Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Medical Faculty, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria (D.B.).
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Medical University of Vienna, Austria (B.M.).

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Keywords: atherosclerosis; cardiovascular diseases; electronic-cigarettes; endothelial cells; smoking; tobacco cigarettes; vaping.

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