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Tim Russert Dead

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kcal Founding Member

Re: Tim Russert Died

a shame... he will be missed.

kcal, Jun 13, 2008

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gumborue Throwin Ched

i thought " the only good liberal was a dead liberal." no?

gumborue, Jun 14, 2008

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COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

gumborue said: ↑

i thought " the only good liberal was a dead liberal." no?
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You just raised the bar for tasteless comments.

COTiger, Jun 14, 2008

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mobius481 Registered Member

Very sad. It seemed like he stayed very objective on his show Meet the Press and during debastes. RIP

mobius481, Jun 14, 2008

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JohnLSU Tigers

I read this article in Newsweek.

Journalists and politicians across the country were in shock...at news that Tim Russert...had collapsed and died suddenly of a heart attack in the network's Washington office. Russert had previously been been diagnosed with several risk factors for a sudden heart attack, including coronary artery disease and diabetes. But his death is still a sad reminder that cardiac arrest can strike anyone without warning—and that when it does, it is often fatal.

Sudden cardiac arrest accounts for 310,000 deaths in America every year, or 850 a day—more than those caused by breast cancer, lung cancer, stroke, and AIDS combined.

...as a 58-year-old male, Russert was in high-risk groups; the average age for suffering sudden cardiac death is between 58 and 62. Other factors involved in all forms of cardiovascular disease—family history, smoking, diabetes, and obesity—can come into play. Russert had some of these too; he had been previously diagnosed with diabetes and and coronary artery disease, and his autopsy on Friday showed an enlarged heart.

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What is clear is that there are ways to lower one's risk of sudden cardiac death: eat healthy, exercise, don't smoke, and take aspirin or statins. The trouble, though, is that patients often don't think they're at serious risk until they are actually experiencing an attack. In about a third of all sudden deaths due to coronary disease, death is the first sign that anything major is wrong. Russert himself was exercising and taking medication for his coronary artery disease, which was asymptomatic. He performed well in a stress test two months ago.

A sudden cardiac arrest is, of course, unexpected, but the process that causes it may begin many years before. "In middle-aged men, it's virtually always caused by degeneration in the wall of a coronary artery," says Dr. Thomas Risser, a cardiologist at Cambridge Health Alliance. "It starts with fat deposits and inflammation, and these plaques just lie there silently." They can do so for decades until one of them fractures, at which point the body tries to plug the hole with a blood clot—and ends up blocking off the whole blood vessel. This condition is known as a coronary thrombosis, and it is extremely dangerous. The heart muscle, now starved for oxygen-rich blood, falls out of rhythm; it quivers but doesn't pump. "In the final stage, the ventricle looks like a bag of worms. It's chaotically beating very fast and therefore is completely inefficient at pumping blood," says Olgin. "Soon, there's no blood flow anywhere, including the brain, and people just suddenly collapse."

Once a patient's heart has gotten out of a normal rhythm, it can't get back on beat on its own. But a defibrillator—either an internally implanted one such as Cheney's, or an external one with electrical paddles—can get the heart beating steadily again, provided it is used in time. "If people get there with an external defibrillator within three minutes of a collapse, the survival rate for the kind of thing Russert may have had can be as high as 50 percent," says Robert J. Myerburg, a cardiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "But time is the whole issue. If you rely on fire/rescue teams to bring one, the chance of survival drops seven to ten percent" with every minute that passes after a collapse. It's unclear whether Russert had access to a defibrillator. His internist said on Friday that "resuscitation" had begun immediately after the collapse and continued at the hospital, to no avail.

link: Tim Russert and Sudden Cardiac Arrest | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com
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JohnLSU, Jun 14, 2008

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gumborue Throwin Ched

COTiger said: ↑

You just raised the bar for tasteless comments.
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just surprised that so many conservative posters are taking the time to say nice things about a liberal.

or maybe they didnt know?

ps. i assumed his wife or daughter wouldnt be checking out tf for our opinions.

gumborue, Jun 14, 2008

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red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

gumborue said: ↑

i thought " the only good liberal was a dead liberal." no?
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Does this sound like a joke thread to you?

red55, Jun 14, 2008

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Rex_B Geaux Time

gumborue said: ↑

just surprised that so many conservative posters are taking the time to say nice things about a liberal.

or maybe they didnt know?

ps. i assumed his wife or daughter wouldnt be checking out tf for our opinions.
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Paying RESPECT doesn't mean we agree with the man.

Rex_B, Jun 16, 2008

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LSUMASTERMIND Founding Member

Definitely pay respects to the guy, he was great at his profession and just being a family man.

I dont think he was anymore liberal than conservative. He had a pretty fair voice in the media.

LSUMASTERMIND, Jun 16, 2008

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red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

He certainly wasn't soft on politicians from either party.

red55, Jun 16, 2008

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