Energy drink 'fuel hepatitis risk'

Health and Recovery
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With regards to niacin (vitamin b3) :

Each had around 40mg of niacin (vitamin B3) - UK recommendations are that men have no more than 17mg a day and women 13mg.
People usually experience toxic symptoms only if they have more than 500mg, but in this man’s case, 160mg-200mg a day was enough to affect his liver. His symptoms disappeared when he stopped consuming energy drinks.

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i was under the impression that hepatitis is a social disease.

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Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver.

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> He already had an underlying liver problem, which doctors think increased the risk from his four or five drinks per day.