excitement kind of stress, or a bad kind of stress, can bring on a heart attack, if there is underlying heart disease. we don t know antonio s health history, but the cardiologist i talked to said if there is any even sort of building up of plaque in the artery, the excitement can bring on well, even without that blockage, excitement brings on what s called the catacolamine surge, hormones surge through your body, make your heart race, pump fast. any underlying heart disease that can spell a heart attack s we re told dan tone ye went to the hospital, had actually had a heart attack and they needed to do surgery to open up one of his arteries. as we learn about heart attacks we learned there are so many things that can cause them. is this how tight is that causal relationship? i ve heard if you ingest too much fatty food at one sitting, you re in a high-risk category, it can give you a heart attack. is it stress or is it something