FOX Health

Posts Tagged ‘heart attack’

Drinking Red Bull May Have Killed A Supermarket Worker

Friday, April 25th, 2008

A 40-year-old supermarket worker died of a heart attack after drinking as many as four cans of Red Bull energy drink each night, the Daily Mail has reported.

Pathologist Dr. Ian Roberts said this week Alfredo Duran, 40, of Wheatley in Oxford, England, had an enlarged heart and the excessive caffeine he consumed each day may have contributed to his death.

“My feeling is — given the evidence available — it was a cardiac arrest possibly contributed to by subtoxic caffeine ingestion,” Roberts told the Daily Mail.

Each can of Red Bull is said to contain 80mg of caffeine — about the same amount as a cup of coffee.

What do you think?  Leave your comments below. 

AIDS Drug Abacavir Doubles Heart Attack Risk

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

A commonly used AIDS drug appears to nearly double the risk of a heart attack, researchers said Tuesday.

In a study published online by the medical journal Lancet, the researchers also said another less frequently used AIDS drug increased the chances of a heart attack by 50 percent. Experts said doctors should be aware of the increased risks, but they did not recommend that patients abandon the two drugs, Ziagen and Videx.

Close
E-mail It