EVALI: O USO DO CIGARRO ELETRÔNICO E SEUS IMPACTOS NA SAÚDE
EVALI: O USO DO CIGARRO ELETRÔNICO E SEUS IMPACTOS NA SAÚDE
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.94724191127
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Palavras-chave: Cigarro Eletrônico; Saúde; EVALI.
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Keywords: Electronic cigarette; Health; EVALI.
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Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Electronic cigarettes, or vaping, are being consumed more and more, especially by young adults. Amidst the growing feeling that the use of electronic cigarettes constitutes modernity and based on the potential risks involved with their use, in 2019, the emergence of Electronic Cigarette Use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI), a syndrome with specific clinical characteristics, which can lead to death. OBJECTIVE: to carry out a literature review in order to reflect and discuss the EVALI disease and its impacts on health. METHODOLOGY: This is an integrative literature review. The searches were carried out in the online databases: LILACS, BVS and SciELO. Using descriptors according to the DeCS vocabulary, associating the Boolean operator AND: “Electronic Cigarette”, “Health”, “EVALI”. The inclusion criteria were periodicals available in full for free. As for the exclusion criteria, they were duplicate articles in the databases. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Based on the analysis of the 07 articles present in this review, the use of electronic cigarettes is an important risk factor for the development of diseases related to the respiratory, gastrointestinal and cardiac tracts, and EVALI is the main one. This pathology has clinical characteristics, and its rapid growth becomes a public health problem. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: it is noticeable that the use of electronic cigarettes has brought several harms to their users and impacted their lives. Therefore, there is a need to develop awareness activities together with the anti-smoking policy, as its proportion has become a public health problem.
- Jenniffer Izabel Gomes de Queiroz
- Franciele Nayara da Silva Monteiro
- Milena Cantilino Ferreira
- Camilly Késia Bernardino
- Sthefany Lopes Barreto