The dance of death: "overweight, unfit, suddenly hurled into intense physical activity,..."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22833582

BMJ. 2012 Jul 24;345:e4956. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e4956.

The dance of death.

Farrell L.

"“So,” I asked, “how did it happen?”

“Well,” he said, “I was at a wedding and I got up to dance—that’s when I felt the pain in my chest.”

I was curious; for the third time in a matter of weeks a man in his 50s had had an infarct while at a wedding. The risk factors were obvious: overweight, unfit, suddenly hurled into intense physical activity,..."