Can popping a Motrin or Advil stop your heart? Possibly, according to a study published earlier this week in the European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy.
The study found that people who take certain Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (better known as NSAIDs) were more than 30 percent more likely to experience cardiac arrest. Although cardiac arrest and heart attacks are often used interchangeably, strictly speaking a cardiac arrest is when your heart stops beating—a heart attack is when oxygen is blocked from entering your heart, which often leads to cardiac arrest.
