The e-BILD Study: Effects of E-cigarettes on Lung Health in Teenagers.

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS/e-cigarettes/vaping) are increasingly popular among teenagers around the world. The safety and potential adverse effects of ENDS in this population are largely unknown. While the aerosol, that users inhale, appears safe under laboratory conditions, there are still open questions, which have not yet been assessed. These cover (a) differences in exposure to chemicals (such as metabolites of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and metabolites of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)) between healthy teenagers using ENDS and healthy teenagers not vaping, (b) effects of exposure to such chemicals on the body (measured by lung health indicators: airway symptoms such as coughing; lung function and lung structure tests; immune response of airway cells exposed to vapor; markers of oxidative stress), and (c) the role of nicotine metabolism. It is unknown which lung health indicator/s is/are most relevant to assess the effect of ENDS on lung health in teenagers. The primary hypothesis of this study is that there will be differences in exposure to chemicals, resulting in more or more severe airway symptoms in vaping teenagers compared to their non-vaping peers. While there might not yet exist any differences regarding lung function or structure, we expect already visible effects of vaping on the local immune response of primary cells isolated from airways in vaping teenagers as compared to non-vaping peers. In this study, participants of the Bern Basel Infant Lung Development (BILD) cohort, a birth cohort of healthy term-born infants and their follow-up, will serve as healthy, non-vaping controls.1 Vaping teenagers will be recruited independently from the BILD study through advertisements and visits to Bernese schools. Both populations combined represent the study population of the e-BILD study. All e-BILD study participants will undergo the same investigations. While these are currently planned for once in a time (so-called cross-sectional design) to compare results from non-vaping BILD study participants to otherwise healthy but vaping teenagers, repeated measures might follow, depending on the findings of the first phase.

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT05105555
Study type	Observational
Source	University Hospital Inselspital, Berne
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase
Start date	February 1, 2022
Completion date	February 24, 2023

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The e-BILD Study: Effects of E-cigarettes on Lung Health in Teenagers. — e-BILD

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