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. 2021 Jan;64(1):126–137. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2020-0164OC

Table 1.

Subject Demographics and Biomarkers of Nicotine and Tobacco Use

  All (N = 49) E-Cigarette Users (n = 15) Cigarette Smokers (n = 14) Nonsmokers (n = 20)
BMI, mean ± SD 26.3 ± 5.8 26.4 ± 6.3 26.5 ± 6.0 26.1 ± 5.6
Age, mean ± SD 27.5 ± 7.6 22.8 ± 4.8 31.3 ± 6.4 28.3 ± 8.4
Sex, n, F/M 22/27 3/12 5/9 14/6
Race, n, African American/white/other 9/34/6 1/11/3 6/7/1 2/16/2
Cigarettes/d, mean ± SD (range) 0.0 ± 0.1 (0.0–0.1) 9.8 ± 5.3 (3.8–20)*
Cotinine, mean ± SD 99.6 ± 132.0 121.7 ± 125.3* 2.0 ± 7.5
NNAL/creatinine, mean ± SD 4.7 ± 9.5 98.1 ± 89.7* 1.2 ± 3.9

Definition of abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; e-cigarette = electronic-cigarette; NNAL = 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol.

*

P  ≤  0.0001.

P  ≤  0.001, compared with nonsmokers.