Heavy consumption of energy drink led to heart failure in a young man- Case report
Excess of everything is bad even energy drinks. It may be potentially harmful for heart.
Excessive energy drink consumption may be linked to heart failure. Doctors have reported a case of a 21 year old, who had regularly drunk 4 such cans every day for around 2 years.The young man in question ended up in intensive care after experiencing 4 months of progressive breathlessness on exertion, orthopnoea and weight loss.
The case has been published in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
This report adds to the growing body of published evidence on, and mounting concerns about, the potential heart harms of these drinks, say the authors.
He habitually drank an average of four 500 ml cans of energy drink every day: each can contains 160 mg of caffeine plus taurine (a protein) and various other ingredients. He said he had been doing this for around 2 years.
https://casereports.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bcr-2020-239370
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