Woman took diet tablets in month before her death

The Irish Medicines Board is to be notified that an obese young woman who died from cardiac failure had been taking slimming tablets new to the Irish market.

Cork’s city coroner Dr Myra Cullinane said that while there was no direct link between the CLA 24/7 pills and Johanna Janatuinen’s death, she plans to bring all the circumstances of the death to the IMB’s attention.

“There is no direct connection being made [between the death and the tablets] but, in years to come, a body of evidence may emerge,” said Dr Cullinane.