The dance of death

“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, but could there be something more going on, something sinister?  Mehr