Hua My, Alfi Mina, Talbot Prue
University of California, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, United States.
J Med Internet Res. 2013 Apr 8;15(4):e59. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2324.
The health effects caused by electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use are not well understood.
Our purpose was to document the positive and negative short-term health effects produced by e-cigarette use through an analysis of original posts from three online e-cigarettes forums.
Data were collected into Microsoft Access databases and analyzed using Cytoscape association graphics, frequency distributions, and interactomes to determine the number and type of health effects reported, the organ systems affected the frequency of specific effects, and systems interactions.
A total of 405 different symptoms due to e-cigarette use were reported from three forums. Of these, 78 were positive, 326 were negative, and one was neutral. While the reported health effects were similar in all three forums, the forum with the most posts was analyzed in detail. Effects, which were reported for 12 organ systems/anatomical regions, occurred most often in the mouth and throat and in the respiratory, neurological, sensory, and digestive systems. Users with negative symptoms often reported more than one symptom, and in these cases interactions were often seen between systems, such as the circulatory and neurological systems. Positive effects usually occurred singly and most frequently affected the respiratory system.
This is the first compilation and analysis of the health effects reported by e-cigarette users in online forums. These data show that e-cigarette use can have wide ranging positive and negative effects and that online forums provide a useful resource for examining how e-cigarette use affects health.
电子烟使用对健康产生的影响尚未得到充分了解。
我们的目的是通过分析三个在线电子烟论坛的原始帖子，记录电子烟使用所产生的短期健康的正面和负面影响。
数据被收集到Microsoft Access数据库中，并使用Cytoscape关联图、频率分布和相互作用组进行分析，以确定所报告的健康影响的数量和类型、受影响的器官系统、特定影响的频率以及系统间的相互作用。
三个论坛共报告了405种因使用电子烟而出现的不同症状。其中，78种为正面影响，326种为负面影响，1种为中性影响。虽然在所有三个论坛中报告的健康影响相似，但对帖子最多的论坛进行了详细分析。报告的影响涉及12个器官系统/解剖区域，最常出现在口腔和喉咙以及呼吸、神经、感觉和消化系统。出现负面症状的用户通常报告不止一种症状，在这些情况下，系统之间经常会出现相互作用，如循环系统和神经系统之间。正面影响通常单独出现，最常影响呼吸系统。
这是首次对电子烟用户在在线论坛上报告的健康影响进行汇编和分析。这些数据表明，使用电子烟会产生广泛的正面和负面影响，并且在线论坛为研究电子烟使用如何影响健康提供了有用的资源。
