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

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.