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The article says the teenager had no pre-existent medical (cardiac) condition. Question is : Could it be an undiagnosed, latent condition? The kid was really yo

• d33 9y ago
  Perhaps they could tell a bit about the history of the heart based on the post-mortem? Just guessing though, I don't know much about medicine.
• sb8244 9y ago
  In similar stories I've seen, the stories usually indicates a posthumous diagnosis of some condition. It seems like there was something else going on here that caffeine triggered. That's far outside of the norm for young people though.
• tyingq 9y ago
  This story is confusing to me. There are even studies where previous heart failure patients were given acute high doses of caffeine with no adverse effects. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2569283 http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article...
• epmaybe 9y ago
  I believe the condition was looked at on autopsy, as the coroner gave said report. My problem with this, is that even if you do an autopsy, lots of arrhythmias are not "visible", as they are conduction problems. So what's to say that the teen didn't have something like that, and while there would be no structural defects he could have had a fatal arrhythmia and died.