I honestly was expecting a trolling thread, and yea my grandfather from my moms side had a heart attack 3 times. The reasons were simple, he did not valor his life. He loved one thing in life, money. He was always focus on his assets, and always perused more financial resources. He was a pack a day smoker, and would drink extreme amounts of coffee, he refused any medical advice given to him. The 3rd attack was in the 80s when he died, it was my mom, the youngest uncle, and an aunt in a car. He knew he was going to die, and he simply asked to leave him alone, and to enjoy what he would left, as the hospital was to far. He basically went from rags to riches and never really enjoyed himself, the finances were split between 20 kids and my grandmother of course, they did a raffle diving his assests in 21 pieces, and my mom lives off that. So in primary family (first cousins, grandparents, etc), that is the only heart attacks, the rest were tumors/natrual/lung cancer. I wish your brother the best.

Last night my brother was at Wal-Mart and was messing around when he dropped to the ground screaming in pain, holding his heart, he already had heart troubles he can't have anything with a high amount of Caffeine it will cause his heart rate to go sky high, he takes medication for it and last night when he dropped he woke up in the hospital asking what happened and unable to breathe right, he just got sponsored by DVS, Osris, and a local bike shop for BMX, and now he might not be able to ride again, thank god he survived, I would have been crushed, this was one of the worse things to happen to me family wise, the worse was my step dad's stroke, then my dad's wreck, the this, and then family deaths, but that's off topic, have you had a family member that you were close to have a heart attack, or something a long those lines?