Sorry about all of the"bad days." RM, your friend dropped because of family history! My husband, cyclist, good eater, already on Lipitor and BP meds was having chest pain last yr. After 2 docs saying it was nothing, he ended up having 2 80% blockages, and had stents put in. If he wasn't a cyclist, he probably would have gone out and shoveled snow and dropped dead. It's possible your friend ignored some of the subltle signs of heart disease (like, I'm hurting because I rode or ran too far!) and then had the massive heart attack. Men do tend to do this, especially athletes. It was stricltly family history for my husband... no one could believe he had heart disease>

Robyn