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Stephen Gately death: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome
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Stephen Gately's death was caused by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome the autopsy reveals.
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome causes the death of some 12 people under 35 years old each week. It's, to put it in simple terms, where the heart goes haywire. The electrical system goes wrong and it might start pumping at three hundred beats a second. It is almost impossible to help somone with this syndrome: usually the first sign of it is death itself.
This means that Stephen Gately's death was not caused, as some have been speculating, by either alcohol or drugs: he most certainly did not inhale his own vomit.
“There is nothing to indicate the death was caused by alcohol or drugs,” said a spokesman at the Court of Instruction in the island’s capital.
The official denied earlier reports that the star may have choked to death on his own vomit. “That did not cause his death,” she said.
“Preliminary results of the autopsy found acute pulmonary oedema indicating Stephen Gately died of natural causes.”
Medical experts said such a finding was common in those who had suffered a fatal heart attack.
Obviously it's sad that he died and slightly mystifying to us all that someone so young and apparently healthy can simply fall over dead, one minute to the next. But it does indeed happen as it has done here.
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