Forget doctors, angioplasties and statin drugs. What killed Tim Russert was his endless up and down dieting. Nothing causes more stress on the heart than gaining and losing weight through obsessive dieting.
Russert was looking awful for the last few year’s. Puffy and expressionless in the eyes. His primary Dr. made a huge mistake not to request angiogram. That would have shown the artery problem and he would have been asap for bypass surgery.
I speak with some knowledge. Husband had no symptoms. Annual physical Dr said you have never had a stress test, let’s do that and see how you are doing. Took stress test and didn’t do well. Went for angiogram and bingo three clogged arteries. Had triple bypass surgery and all is well.