A new study of 51,000 US college students suggested a link between vaping and eating disorders.
Titled, “Associations between vaping and eating disorder diagnosis and risk among college students,” the current study looked for associations between e-cigarette use in the past 30 days and a self-reported eating disorder diagnosis, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
The research team found that among the sample, 19.0% reported vaping in 30 days, 3.7% self-reported any lifetime eating disorder diagnosis, and a general 25.0% were at an elevated risk for an eating disorder. “What we found was that those who engaged in vaping over the last 30 days were more likely to have any lifetime eating disorder diagnosis,” said lead study author Kyle T. Gansom, PhD, MSW.
“The reason for this is probably multifaceted,” Ganson says. “Certainly we know that people who have eating disorders are more likely to smoke cigarettes and more likely to use substances, in general. Using these substances, especially like vaping nicotine, can certainly affect disordered eating by having appetite suppressing effects and metabolic effects…which might help people reduce weight.”
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-04-22.
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