Just one can of the popular stimulant energy ***** Red Bull can increase the risk of heart ****** or stroke, even in young people, Australian medical researchers said on Friday.
The caffeine-loaded beverage, popular with university students and adrenaline sport fans to give them "wings," caused the ***** to become sticky, a pre-cursor to cardiovascular problems such as stroke.
"One hour after they drank Red Bull, (their ***** systems) were no longer normal. They were abnormal like we would expect in a patient with cardiovascular disease," Scott Willoughby, lead researcher from the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, told the Australian newspaper.
The results showed "normal people develop symptoms normally associated with cardiovascular disease" after consuming the *****, created in the 1980s by Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz based on a similar Thai energy *****.
Red Bull is ****** in Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks listed on its cans, but the company last year sold 3.5 billion cans in 143 countries. One can contains 80 mg of caffeine, around the same as a normal cup of brewed coffee.
Red Bull could be deadly when combined with stress or high ***** pressure, impairing proper ***** vessel function and possibly lifting the risk of ***** clotting.
"If you have any predisposition to cardiovascular disease, I'd think twice about ******** it," he said.
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The caffeine-loaded beverage, popular with university students and adrenaline sport fans to give them "wings," caused the ***** to become sticky, a pre-cursor to cardiovascular problems such as stroke.
"One hour after they drank Red Bull, (their ***** systems) were no longer normal. They were abnormal like we would expect in a patient with cardiovascular disease," Scott Willoughby, lead researcher from the Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, told the Australian newspaper.
The results showed "normal people develop symptoms normally associated with cardiovascular disease" after consuming the *****, created in the 1980s by Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz based on a similar Thai energy *****.
Red Bull is ****** in Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks listed on its cans, but the company last year sold 3.5 billion cans in 143 countries. One can contains 80 mg of caffeine, around the same as a normal cup of brewed coffee.
Red Bull could be deadly when combined with stress or high ***** pressure, impairing proper ***** vessel function and possibly lifting the risk of ***** clotting.
"If you have any predisposition to cardiovascular disease, I'd think twice about ******** it," he said.
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