Did Russert have any history of coronary events?

[Aviation Pro]

And wasn't his name brought up on a number of occasions during the Plame investigation?

Hmmmm.....

[Berry Cool]

1. Tinfoil hats already smashed long ago. Please put them away.

I suppose my mother's death was also the result of a vast conspiracy and plot to murder her. Too bad I didn't know about it before she dropped dead of a heart attack with no warning. I guess someone must have wanted HER dead, too. :sarcasm:

[TahitiNut]

3. Need help with that cross?

:eyes:

[Berry Cool]

23. No.

I'm not carrying one.

[Clear Blue Sky]

2. No idea. His father is alive though.

So that half of his gene pool must be pretty good. He is a bit heavy. Don't know if he got any regular exercise. Diet? Also a hard working guy.

He just got off the plane that morning from a flight from Italy. Pulmonary embolus from sitting too long?

May be a few days before answers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Two things, he flew in barely 24 hours ago

long haul flight... Deep Vein Thrombosis is a possibility

Number two, he was a type two diabetic, which alone increases the risk of coronary events

That said, I will not discount any tinfoil hat after the last seven years

[Aviation Pro]

5. Since I'm about to take a 14 hour flight....

...that makes sense.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Ask your doc what you should take

we take baby aspirin... have for years, one pill will help protect you, but ask your doc

[Aviation Pro]

10. As a pilot, I take nothing until I consult with my AME...

...and the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI). You even have to report taking aspirin for your medical.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. True, good point

[shireen]

19. drink plenty of fluids and move around to keep your circulation going.

i've had a bad dvt. very scary experience.
mine wasn't tied to a long flight, i had a blood coagulation disorder.

please stay safe, take good care of yourself up there. :hi:

[DailyGrind51]

26. Move around the cabin!

A woman on my flight from London to Nairobi suffered an embolism upon arrival at the airport and died.

[AllentownJake]

6. Too Tinfoil

My mother is an accute coronary care nurse. I talked to her tonight. This happens more often than you think with people literally being perfectly fine than dropping dead.

[napi21]

7. His Dr. said he had some cholesterol build up in his veins, but they

through they had it under control. I don't think they've released the autopsy results yet, but that is a strong suspect for what happened to him.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. The autopsy results are in

He died of progressive coronary artery disease. That means a piece of plaque came loose somewhere in his coronary artery and knocked him dead. They tried, and failed, to resuscitate him. He was dead instantly. And, yes, he knew about this and was trying to lose weight. He was also diabetic.

[lonestarnot]

11. What? Do you have a link or anything?

[bicentennial_baby]

12. The Dr who did the autopsy was interviewed in-depth on MSNBC

I've also seen parts of it replay ed on CNN.

[lonestarnot]

15. I turned it off, so I missed it. Damn that was fast.

[tulsakatz]

13. apparently both he and his doctor.......

...were aware of the problem. I don't know anything specific about his health care but I did hear that he took (and passed) a stress test in late April. So obviously they were aware of the problem......

[orleans]

22. he was also doing the treadmill earlier friday

or so his doc or someone said on msnbc

on edit: but when they did a run down of his schedule lately i thought it was enough to stress out and kill anyone

he put his father in assisted living ten days ago
his kid just graduated
he made a speech at some school
he went to italy w/family
he came back here to get ready for his show
he did the treadmill earlier in the day
(one or two more things i'm forgetting)

shit. i'd get all stressed out trying to figure out if i packed everything before i left for home.

[DFW]

25. That sounds like a typical week for me

I have coronary blockage, too, but I watch my diet religiously, and if
I ever got to being half as heavy as he was, my doc would have me chained
to an exercise machine and give me only salad, raw fish and water until I
got back to a normal size. So far, I've had no recurrence, but also no
signs of diabetes, either.

Some of us paint ourselves into a corner professionally, and get stuck in
these situations where our professional and personal lives are demanding
enough to warrant looking into cloning.

You just gotta take it easy every now and then. I steal the time if I can't
find it.

[LiberalFighter]

27. They said something about being treated for enlarged heart also.

[DFW]

28. As far as I know, that is something I don't have (yet)

[riverwalker]

16. Negative stress test in April

according to the doctor. It happens.

[shireen]

20. isn't that reason for immediate treatment?

it must have been very advanced to kill him. i wonder if he should have been admitted for emergency surgery? Something like that should have been visible on an MRI, right? Very odd.

[Occam Bandage]

17. Hey, whaddya know, the Tinfoil Brigade embarrassed yet again. Ah well.

f his death, MSNBC reported that an autopsy revealed that cholesterol buildup had "ruptured an artery," leading to coronary thrombosis, or heart attack. He was 58.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-etruss0614,0,5841058.story

[AlCzervik]

18. he was also diabetic and you know sometimes people just have heart attacks and die.

my friend was 27 when she died, she opened her front door and collapsed and that was it, she was gone.

[Dreamer Tatum]

21. His death is awfully suspicious...fat 58-year-old white men are usually so much hardier

Let's just hazard a guess as to how many out-of-shape 58 year olds not named Russert plopped over today.

I swear, DU is worthy of its own logical fallacy when it comes to people dying.

[Berry Cool]

24. His doctor said he could have had a stress test that very morning

and it would have come up clean. No problems.

I'm sorry, I know some people are very comforted by the idea that if they had his kind of problem, surely they would know about it before it was too late to do anything about it. But it's just not so. And the fact that it's just not so is no excuse for all the tinfoil-hatting I've seen around here.

That's why I'm saying--funny how when my mother died out of nowhere, no one thought anyone was trying to kill her. When we got the autopsy report back and it said her heart was almost 100% blocked, all we could do was be bewildered, because although she had high blood pressure and was on meds for it, she had no history of heart problems at all. NONE.

Her very first heart attack killed her.

My father had a heart attack years later. While driving. Somehow he managed to get himself to an emergency room without losing control of the car and having an accident. He survived.

Why did one make it? Why did one not? Who knows?

Sometimes, a heart attack is just a heart attack...not part of a complex and evil plot to do someone in.

That's all I wanted to say.

[Wiley50]

29. Well, He helped to Coronate Bush Twice. Does that count?

Sorry couldn't help myself