Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in the US looked at the medical data of 144 patients who had survived a cardiac arrest following emergency treatment. Results found that seven of them, aged between 20 and 42, had consumed an energy drink some time before the life-threatening event, with six requiring electrical shock treatment and one needing manual resuscitation.
Peter Schwartz, of the Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin and Laboratory of Cardiovascular Genetics, in Milan, Italy, wrote in an accompanying editorial: “Critics might say of these findings, ‘it’s just an association by chance’.
“We, as well as the Mayo Clinic group, are perfectly aware that there is no clear and definitive evidence that energy drinks indeed cause life-threatening arrhythmias and that more data are necessary, but we would be remiss if we were not sounding the alarm.”
Edit to add a link to the study … https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(24)00189-9/fulltext
I have an urgent warning to anyone who plans on drinking an energy drink for the first time: they all taste awful.
So does coffee, really (imo). Until the taste is acquired.
Then it’s habit forming.
That’s why I stick to tea. Which most people think tastes good.
I certainly do not fall under most in this statement, you can miss me with that leaf water. Though I will admit 4 out if the 5 people in my house drink it which is why 2 entire cupboards in my house are filled with it in various boxes, tins, cakes, etc.