Nicotine - Retracted Studies, Papers, and Articles: Difference between revisions

*"The more they looked at the article, the more problems they saw. The work was based on data from an annual survey on health and nutrition by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the reported number of survey respondents was inexplicably off by an order of magnitude—the survey is completed by about 5000 people a year, but the paper cited 266,058 respondents from 2015 to 2018. The authors also failed to report whether the difference in age of stroke onset between vapers and traditional smokers could simply be due to vapers being younger overall. And those were just a few of the obvious issues, according to Cohen and Foxon, who alerted both the authors and the journal to their concerns." (Joelving)

*See Also: [https://twitter.com/FloeFoxon/status/1786522387338465755 Tweetorial] (Foxon) and [https://pubpeer.com/publications/1F118DC9A92A4FC13507BB5448462D PubPeer] (Richardson)

===2024: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/CD0E2CD6E82EB2F69173F5A1193331#1 Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction]===

*See also: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11055619/ Questionable Effects of Electronic Cigarette Use on Cardiovascular Diseases From the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS, 2014-2021)]

**The study by Alzahrani made erroneous claims and overstated the association between e-cigarettes and myocardial infarction. Our replication shows that the association is driven by age and there were no statistically significant associations with other cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart diseases, and stroke.

===2022: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/B1574611ED725601C17C3766DB164E Association Between E-Cigarette Use and Cardiovascular Disease Among Never and Current Combustible-Cigarette Smokers]===

*"The study by Osei et al. used the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, which contains no information about when participants started to smoke or vape, or when they were diagnosed with cardiovascular disease. A recent analysis by my research group of data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health, which contains this essential temporal information, provides definitive evidence that the results from Osei et al. are deficient and unreliable." (Rodu)

===2022: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/D075EB2EED18CA0311BAC77C783777 Cardiovascular Outcomes Associated With Adult Electronic Cigarette Use]===

*"The study by Vindhyal et al. used the National Health Interview Survey, which contains no information about when participants started to smoke or vape, or when they were diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases." (Rodu)

===2020: Comments RE: [https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-on-smoking-vaping-and-stroke-risk/ Risk of Stroke With E-Cigarette and Combustible Cigarette Use in Young Adults]===

*“While the paper itself is careful in interpreting the finding, the press release is grossly misleading. The study provides no justification for the claim that vaping increases the risk of stroke.” (Hajek)

*"While this paper highlights the need to continue studying the potential health effects of e-cigarette use, the results should be interpreted with caution as the observed associations may be simply due to unmeasured confounding and reverse causality.” (Shahab)

===2020-2022: Comments RE: [https://pubpeer.com/publications/E4180AE40B2A0F076D7D07CE0B7961 Association Between Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction]===

*See also: [https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.amepre.2018.11.013 2018]  

**"Our findings show the well-established limitations of cross-sectional studies, which cannot justify any claims about causal inference, as mentioned in the conclusion by Alzahrani and colleagues.1 Therefore, the conclusion of their study is incorrect and should be revised." (Farsalinos, Niaura)

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