Literature DB >> 28209940

Sports, energy drinks, and sudden cardiac death: stimulant cardiac syndrome.

Erdem Kaşıkçıoğlu1.   

Abstract

Entities:  

Mesh:

Year:  2017        PMID: 28209940      PMCID: PMC5336767          DOI: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2017.7575

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Anatol J Cardiol        ISSN: 2149-2263            Impact factor:   1.596


× No keyword cloud information.
To the Editor, Recently, it has been detected that unexplained cardiac arrest in some young individuals developed after consuming energy drinks, particularly simultaneously with alcohol intake. It is known that several stimulants are included in formulas of different energy drinks. More credible is the argument that energy drinks affect the cardiovascular conduction system and lead to catastrophic events via lethal arrhythmias (1, 2). The aim to achieve higher levels of athletic performance and academic success leads to a gradual increase in consumption in the young population. Although the mood of an individual in the social environment becomes better in a short time after the consumption of these substrates, the claim about increasing athletic and academic performance is not true. Another important subject that has received too little attention is that unscientific promotions by beverage firms, attractive shows in public fields, more advertisements in readable and visible media, and extraordinary sports activities as stimulants for using the energy drinks stimulate consumption by serving as false models. The main concern is that these beverages could easily lead to severe cardiovascular events in young and older individuals who have underlying silent cardiovascular disease. Because of their high amounts of caffeine and other substrates, dangerous arrhythmias can easily develop in the hearts of individuals who consume them. The problem is that there are many additional sources of caffeine that are “masked” by the labeling (3, 4). Frequent ingredients such as guarana, ginseng, and taurine have caffeine concentrations in different energy beverages that are equal to, or higher than those found in coffee (3, 4). Which doses of any of these substances with or without other artificial supplements or/and alcohol might be mostly dangerous is one of the most important points that remain unknown. In any case, it seems clear that energy drinks, some beverages, and some supplements that include stimulants might lead to critical and rarely irreversible cardiovascular events in the young population. Judged by these criteria, this should be discussed to a greater extent in scientific meetings, government-related offices of the health ministry, and public environments for controlling of the intake of these products by means such as smoking in the young population.
  3 in total

Review 1.  Cardiovascular complications from consumption of high energy drinks: recent evidence.

Authors:  S G Chrysant; G S Chrysant
Journal:  J Hum Hypertens       Date:  2014-06-19       Impact factor: 3.012

2.  Effects of energy drinks on blood pressure, heart rate, and electrocardiographic parameters: An experimental study on healthy young adults.

Authors:  Shokoufeh Hajsadeghi; Fatemeh Mohammadpour; Mohammad Javad Manteghi; Kiarash Kordshakeri; Masoud Tokazebani; Elham Rahmani; Morteza Hassanzadeh
Journal:  Anatol J Cardiol       Date:  2015-03-23       Impact factor: 1.596

3.  Acute effects of Red Bull energy drink on ventricular repolarization in healthy young volunteers: a prospective study.

Authors:  Ali Elitok; Fahrettin Öz; Cafer Panc; Remzi Sarıkaya; Selim Sezikli; Yasin Pala; Övgü Sinem Bugan; Müge Ateş; Hilal Parıldar; Mustafa Buğra Ayaz; Adem Atıcı; Hüseyin Oflaz
Journal:  Anatol J Cardiol       Date:  2015-03-05       Impact factor: 1.596

  3 in total
  2 in total

1.  Sudden cardiac death in physicians: an alarming problem in China.

Authors:  Xinmiao Shi; Rui Liu
Journal:  Anatol J Cardiol       Date:  2018-02       Impact factor: 1.596

2.  Metabolic Syndrome Associated with Tobacco and Caffeine Products Use Among Refugee Adolescents: Risk of Dyslipidemia.

Authors:  Basma Damiri; Omar Khatib; Zaher Nazzal; Diala Sanduka; Siwar Igbaria; Ammar Thabaleh; Ahmad Farhoud; Lubna Saudi; Souad Belkebir; Rayyan Al Ali; Mohammed Alili; Mahmoud Hamdan; Omar A Safarini; Omar Younis
Journal:  Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes       Date:  2021-09-29       Impact factor: 3.168

  2 in total

北京卡尤迪生物科技股份有限公司 © 2022-2023.