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
Coca Cola was originally a health and energy drink and contains caffeine, as do about all colas today. Does that still count?
I don’t give one shit about modern energy drinks, it’s just shittier reinventions of an age old idea. Why people even would want to buy that overpriced heavily commercialized garbage IDK?
Fizzy drink make my head go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
A 12 oz can of coke has less caffine (at 34mg) that a cup of black tea (at 47). So I think the answer to your question is, no.