Only two
serious cardiac events were reported during the time period and none were fatal or life threatening.
In fact, a study in Journal of the American Medical Association found that subjects who metabolized caffeine slowly were at 36 % higher risk of a heart attack or other
serious cardiac event when they drank more than two cups of coffee daily.
Not exact matches
With excessive consumption, potential
serious side effects such as dehydration, heart arrthymias and catastrophic
cardiac events can occur.
Five patients in the intervention group (1.4 percent) experienced
serious adverse
cardiac events within 24 hours of the end of the intervention period compared with none in the usual care group.