Can you detect heart problems??
Ladies & Gentlemen,
I would be grateful if you could shed some light on a matter for me.
On thursday past, an extremely good friend and fellow military aviator died on the squash court (see mil aviation forum)
This dear, dear friend was only 41 and had never smoked in his life. He was not overweight at all, drank very little, kept himself very fit and ate very little in the way of red meat.
At his PM yesterday, the coroner said that he died because of chronic heart disease, and should already have had a by-pass operation. (I understand from his wife that 90% of his arteries were 'furred-up')
Now, without pointing fingers, could someone explain to me (in simple words please!) whether or not this sort of problem can be detected? and if it can then how it could have been missed?
Like all mil' aviators, he had an annual medical, with all the usual ECG blah, and yet there has never been any mention about a heart problem. How can that be? Can your heart be so badly damaged and yet NOT to be picked up on an annual inspection of ECG?
Myself, and no doubt a great many others who knew Paul, will be saying to themselves 'if it can happen to him, then it can happen, literally, to anyone' and it has worried me immensly since his death. Indeed, I ask myself about taking more exercise, losing a bit of weight etc. but I now question its' viability.
What do you think? Is Paul a 'one off' or is all this alledged 'good stuff' actually not that good for you?
Kind regards
The Swinging Monkey