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Old 11-12-2016 | 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by bjtdrvr
Haha. My ame many years ago told me that he had just given an extremely fit pilot his first class medical. The man walked out of his office and had a heart attack on the side walk and died. Age had no bearing on it at all.
That is the nature of heart attacks: they are unpredictable. The only correlations are between smoking and stress; there is no research (contrary to popular opinion) that they, and heart disease in general, are related to factors such as cholesterol levels.
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