Actress Brittany Murphy dies at 32 of heart attack

[Knight165]

Yep....she was cute as heck in Clueless.
She did get a hot after that...but once the skin and bones phase started....she wasn't looking so great. She looked sick. It's a shame.

M.K.
Knight165

[LingeringRegime]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Yep....she was cute as heck in Clueless. She did get a hot after that...but once the skin and bones phase started....she wasn't looking so great. She looked sick. It's a shame. M.K. Knight165

Hollywood lifestyle and it's best/worst. So sad.

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Well before we get any more medical advice it is more likely she died of a condition called Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which results from a part of her heart being enlarged and is undetectable unless you get a echo cardiogram test which is an xray of the heart that detects the enlarged part. A person can have this all thier life and not know it and it often results in sudden death without warning. I know this because a healthy friend of mine died from this as well coincidentally at age 32. it also caused the death of track star Florence Griffith Joyner, a famous male Russian doubles figure skater a few years back (name escapes me) and a Nigerian soccer player last year, all under the age of 40. You also hear those news stories about healthy teenage kids collapsing on a soccer or football field and dying which is likely related to this affliction. It can also have less devastating effects as some people won't die suddenly but get fatigued and have to go on heart medication the rest of thier lives. One example is basketball player Eddie Curry who had a milder version of it and is on Beta blockers to control it. I'm not saying it may not be drug related but to dismiss this death as natural causes because no one gets a heart attack at 32 is way off because with cardiomyopathy you don't have a heart attack, it more can be described as heart failure because a small part of your heart pretty much explodes after being enlarged for so long. it also hard to detect during autopsies and may take months for the coroner to confirm. It's actually a condition that's more common than you think and small minority of us may have it and not even know it as can be hereditary or can be virus related. The sad part is very little research has gone into cardiomyopathy and not that much is known as to the cause. Therefore your standard check up won't pick it up unless you request from your doctor that aforementioned test to detect it which most of us don't.

You honestly believe it is more likely that she had an obscure heart condition than was doing something that a very large portion of young, rich entertainers do?

[Stumbleweed]

History of annorexia + drug use = early grave

Whether she was on drugs at the time she died or not, that clearly played a role in her short life, but probably not as big of one as her annorexia. Terrible disease...

Anyway, RIP.

[RoyalBoyle78]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayBee74

Initial reports say she had a prescription drug problem, including Vicodin, which she used after a series of plastic surgery operations.

I hear ya, I know to much of anything si no good for ya, but could Vicodin really kill you?

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by FootballForever

I hear ya, I know to much of anything si no good for ya, but could Vicodin really kill you?

If you took a whole lot I would assume it could, but if you're speedballing you could definitely have a heart attack.

[Coug00]

On top of the rumored vicodin and anorexia, she was also a diabetic. Heart attacks are much more prevalent for people who take insulin, especially the risk of death from a heart attack.

On top of that, she was suffering from flu-like symptoms and was prescribed medication for it just before she died.

There are a ton of dangerous variables that could be the cause of her death.

[ODogg]

Too skinny, heart gave out. That's why you shouldn't crash diet.