According to an Arkansas State Athletic Commission report released this week, one of the contributing factors of boxer Anthony Jones' death may have been an excess amount of potassium in Jones' system.
Jones was knocked out during a January heavyweight bout in Benton, Arkansas.
From NYdailynews.com:
"Jones' use of alcohol and anabolic steroids, together with his extraordinary use of caffeine, tobacco, and nutritional supplements on top of additional multi-vitamins and potassium supplements without drinking sufficient water, created a biological environment which altered his normal physiological responses and facilitated his demise," the report said. The complex biological and chemical processes involved in this case made it remarkably difficult for the professionals to reach a consensus as to the specific cause of death. In fact, due to the multiple origins and particularly complex nature of the biological, chemical and physical processes involved, it is possible for reasonable, medically and professionally trained minds to disagree on Jones' specific, primary cause of death; however, all agree as to the secondary/contributing conditions or factors."
The report makes the analogy that Jones' death was similar to the domino effect – once one organ or body function fails, others will soon follow.
"The short and overly simplistic answer is that Mr. Jones died as the result of a cascading systems failure caused by extraordinarily complex biological and chemical processes of multiple origins," the report says. One of the steroids found in Jones' system was the veterinary steroid boldenone.
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