{"id":6705,"date":"2008-06-16T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/russert_death_shows_massive_heart_attack_isnt_easy_to_predict\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:35:00","slug":"russert_death_shows_massive_heart_attack_isnt_easy_to_predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6705","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Tim Russert&#39;s Death shows massive heart attack isn&#39;t easy to predict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all their differences, NBC newsman Tim Russert and famed marathoner Jim Fixx, author of the 1977 best-seller The Complete Book of Running, have two things in common: Each died of a massive heart attack while still in his 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Neither one saw it coming.<\/p>\n<p>Russert, 58, died Friday while recording voice-overs for Meet the Press, anchored, as usual, to a desk. Fixx, 52, died on July 20, 1984 after a daily run in rural Hardwick, Vt.<\/p>\n<p>Such cases provide tragic proof that though you can lower your risk of sudden death, you can&#8217;t always prevent it, says Robert Califf, vice chancellor of clinical research at Duke University in Durham, N.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2008-06-15-heart-attack-russert_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all their differences, NBC newsman Tim Russert and famed marathoner Jim Fixx, author of the 1977 best-seller The Complete Book of Running, have two things in common: Each died of a massive heart attack while still in his 50s.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}