Dance Dance Revolution Hastens Heart Attack

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 29, 2004 @04:05PM from the extreme-paranoia dept.

Thanks to TheOmahaChannel.com for its story discussing a 15-year old girl whose heart stopped while playing arcade Dance Dance Revolution. According to the piece: "[Kimber] Wilson was playing the game Dance Dance Revolution at a Bellevue arcade with a friend June 22 when she fell to the floor. The arcade owners gave her CPR, then a police officer took over. Paramedics shocked her several times with a defibrillator at the arcade to get her heart working again." The diagnosis was "hypertrophy cardiomyopathy", a genetic problem (which could have been triggered by any exercise) in which "the walls around her heart are so thick that her heart wasn't getting the signals to beat." Fortunately, Kimber was "soon... back to hanging out with her friends at the arcade", albeit with a pacemaker, commenting: "I might try Dance Dance Revolution, but I'm thinking no."

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God, I hate this place. by torinth · 2004-06-29 16:48 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The lead isn't misleading in the slightest, despite all your whining. It clearly states that this was a congenital deformity that many things besides DDR could have triggered. Did you guys even read the lead? Are you just getting inflamed because of the headline? Do we need to start saying RTFL, now?

Shut up, you little whiners.

This was a human interest story that would be accessible to all of you because it incorporated a familiar nerd topic. It helped bring your attention to this unfortunately too common disease, as few other articles could have.

Idiots.