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You'd think footballers would have above average long healthy lives, as they are the fittest of us, generally. But I don't think that turns out to be true. Many players are taking anti-inflammatories and pain killers towards the end of their careers - probably for their joint injuries mainly. And these will inflame and stress their whole cardio/vascular system for the rest of their lives.People don't just get ill.
There's an accumulation over time of resistance, stress, inflammation and then dis-ease.
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I don't know if rages are as closely related to heart attacks/strokes as we were once taught. Some people thrive off them and sleep like babies. Like women...
Anyway there is nothing we know to link this to gall bladder infections or whatever the issue was. Maybe it is diet related or just one of those things that can go wrong as we age - roll of the dice.