Makes me want to head to the nearest gym.
Makes me want to head to the nearest gym.
Maybe exercise is overrated to some degree, especially for someone that is not used to it.To: unkusWhen you see younger people than you dying, it does tend to have an impact.Makes me want to head to the nearest gym.
To: dfwgatorMakes me want to head to the nearest gym.
Don’t over-do it.Our town had a 51 year old guy who was supposed to be in excellent shape die last week. Got off his bicycle after an easy ride and dropped dead on his lawn.
Tim Russert was on the treadmill this morning. It seems he was getting on a program to become more physically fit.
He had a stress test on April 29th.
A stress test consists of walking real fast on a tread mill for about 6 minutes. Or with drugs that open up all your veins and arteries. (quite painful)
Plus, you have to be off of your medication that keeps your blood pressure and heart rate from getting to high. (I expressed my concern to my cardiologist about the stress test causing someone to have a heart attack, and he said no. Hmmmm)
IMO, stress tests are overrated as Russert apparently passed with flying colors. About 6 weeks ago.
I wonder if his doctors gave him an echocardiogram because of the information out now that he had an enlarged heart. One of the results of an echocardiogram is finding out the size of the heart. You would think he should have had one of those, and if he did they would have known about the enlarged heart. (Maybe they did, and were treating it)
Fistalk, I'm wondering why they didn't do a heart cathertization (roter rooter for the arteries if clogged)and a stent if needed?
It also is used to measure the % of blockage in an artery.
I saw or read that one version of the problem is that cholesterol burst (or caused bursting) in his arteries or heart.