Posted on 01/20/2023 4:39:30 PM PST by algore
Playing videogames could trigger a potentially fatal cardiac episode in children with existing heart conditions, according to an international study published this week.
The study, "Life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death during electronic gaming," examined 22 incidents in which children between the ages of seven and 16 experienced an irregular heartbeat, either proven or suspected, and lost consciousness while playing videogames.
Six of the children suffered cardiac arrest, and four died.
"This is a relatively small study, but we still found a number of cases where children who were actively engaged in video games had a very severe cardiac event," said Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani, head of cardiology at B.C. Children's Hospital.
There's no need for the average family to feel alarmed by the findings, Sanatani added, noting that all of the cases reviewed by researchers involved children with risk factors and underlying heart rhythm conditions that were either known prior to the incidents or diagnosed after the fact.
"These conditions are thankfully rare – the most common occur in about one in 2,000 individuals," he told CTV News.
Children who suddenly lose consciousness while playing an intense videogame should be assessed by a doctor or specialist, the researchers said.
Multiplayer games about war came up more often than any other type of videogame in the cases reviewed for the study, though Sanatani said further research would be needed to draw any direct connections to those types of media. War games such as the Call of Duty series are among the most widely played across platforms, which could have skewed the findings.
The study, which was published in the journal HeartRhythm, did attribute the children's episodes to "adrenergic stimulation related to the emotionally charged electronic gaming environment."
The researchers said their findings raise questions about whether gaming is a safe alternative to competitive sports for children with underlying heart conditions.
"While competitive sport and certain high-risk activities are known to precipitate arrhythmic events in susceptible individuals, electronic gaming has not typically been included in the counseling provided to families with proarrhythmic diagnoses," reads the study.
Sanatani stressed that their research was a “fairly introductory” look at an apparent connection between gaming and cardiac arrhythmia that should be investigated more thoroughly.
"Some questions have been raised but this is definitely an interesting early signal that we've reported," he said.
I was unable to figure out what the cause of all this sudden adolescent death syndrome was.
Yes of course I know that Virtual Assault weapons and even real hardcore missiles and stuff stuff can be killers
Catecholamines: Epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine.
No one gets into or as invested into video games quite like young kids, probably all sorts of adrenaline and dopamine dumps.
Imagine you're a kid: you're 2 hours into a mission, in the middle of a swarm, all your friends are down, and yelling in your ear, you are almost dead, running out of supplies, and if you die you lose all the work for the last 2 hours.
Strange that this was never noticed before 2021 and was never a real world problem (except for the random japanese guy in an internet cafe who had been up for 42 hours pounding whatever is like extrabull energy drinks over there
I wonder sometimes why there are so many more preexisting conditions in young people recently, but it must be just random or overreporting.
Everything can cause cardiac arrest but the Operation Warped Greed Vaccines.
GloBULL Warming...
SEE, SEE! Not the jab!
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/british-columbia/2022/10/14/1_6110462.amp.html
Ha! Beta news. I’ll say!
Honestly I did consider that.
Possibly an increase of solar radiation from the giant ball in the sky is causing spikes in micro-global warming which over time can cause heart damage ?
Maybe the Fear of Misgendering someone in school could cause extreme stress and angst, which increase blood pressure, and over time and do the same
So I guess we can add “video games” to the list of things that can cause heart attacks in young people. That joins the list of heat, cold air, or just climate change, exertion, exercising, any sport, sitting, standing, air particles, and many other newly discovered causes, including my favorite, vaccine anxiety.
I pity the poor child gamer whose veins have been partially blocked with fibrous substances thanks to the clot shot their parents got for them.
He could die suddenly twice!
The genes serums are safe and effective. Get boosted!
Be more worried about the highest vaxxed percentage organization in the world...the US military.
I grew up in the video game era. Calling bull excrement on this. Except maybe for Defender. Never could get the hang of Defender.
Hasn’t happened before the deathjab, but now it’s: global warming, sports, dancing, excitement, boredom, food, breathing, malum zambonifactum, and square dancing while playing polka.
And every healthcare facility in the US that is a CMS provider. I was listening to the AAPS presentation on Marxism in medicine because I am a first hand witness to it.
Lolz this is beyond absurd
Wonder what the next one they come up with will be?
Everything can cause cardiac arrest but the Operation Warped Greed Vaccines.
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Exactly.
Now we know what all the gas they don’t want us using is needed for
All the present
and future
gas lighting.
Uh huh.
Oh, hellya. Just wait until pilots find out that their heads-up dash displays are gonna give them a heart attack. They’ll probly be cancelling their instrument ratings?
This is beyond ludicrous.
But we know for sure, 100% beyond the shadow of a doubt that it cannot possibly be the Covid vax.
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