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Published by Bristol Herald on January 17th, 2020
Vaping may be causing more lung damage than previously thought, researchers fear
New research has found that vaping causes more damage to the lungs than previously thought.
Dozens of deaths linked to vaping are believed to be just "the tip of the iceberg," it is feared.
As part of a study, a US team released CT (computed tomography) X-rays of a 24-year old-man who had been vaping daily.
The patient, who had a history of asthma, had been suffering shortness of breath, chest pain and fever for a week, Kent Live reports .
The X-rays showed worrying abnormalities, caused by fats from vaping oils found in his lungs.
The study was published in the journal Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging and urged scientists to further research the effect vaping has on the lungs.
The paper was titled: "Electronic Cigarette or Vaping-associated Lung Injury (EVALI): The Tip of the Iceberg."
Dr Suhny Abbara of the University of Texas (UT) said: "Radiologists will continue to play an important role in recognising this emerging entity.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/vaping-causing-more-lung-damage-3496580
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New research has found that vaping causes more damage to the lungs than previously thought.
Dozens of deaths linked to vaping are believed to be just "the tip of the iceberg," it is feared.
As part of a study, a US team released CT (computed tomography) X-rays of a 24-year old-man who had been vaping daily.
The patient, who had a history of asthma, had been suffering shortness of breath, chest pain and fever for a week, Kent Live reports .
The X-rays showed worrying abnormalities, caused by fats from vaping oils found in his lungs.
The study was published in the journal Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging and urged scientists to further research the effect vaping has on the lungs.
The paper was titled: "Electronic Cigarette or Vaping-associated Lung Injury (EVALI): The Tip of the Iceberg."
Dr Suhny Abbara of the University of Texas (UT) said: "Radiologists will continue to play an important role in recognising this emerging entity.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/vaping-causing-more-lung-damage-3496580
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Sleep helps memory, right? Not for eyewitnesses
The research team, led by PhD student, David Morgan at Royal Holloway, University of London, Professor Laura Mickes, senior author at the University of Bristol and including researchers from Royal Holloway, the Universities of California, USA and Birmingham, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is published today [4 December] in Royal Society Open Science.
Sleep has long thought to be involved in strengthening memories. Yet there is very little research on whether this is the case for eyewitness memory, such as when an eyewitness is asked to try to pick the perpetrator out of a line-up that includes the police suspect (who is either guilty or innocent) and other known-to-be innocent people.
The researchers conducted a large-scale online experiment on 4,000 participants to measure the impact of sleep on eyewitness identification accuracy on experimental eyewitnesses.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/december/eyewitness-identification.html
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Posted on January 17th, 2020