According to
Megan Fox's twitter Legal Vices has died from heart failure.
Unsurprising, though, given that he appeared to be overweight and drank obscene amounts of alcohol periodically.
It's still a little surprising to hear that Jeff suddenly died of heart failure.
Heart failure in general is a chronic fatal condition with a gradual decline much like emphysema. In general, it isn't a thunderclap death out of the blue like a heart attack or a stroke or an aneurysm.
The concept of "heart failure" is more abstract than it's more well-known emergency cousins.
Heart failure is essentially a chronic condition where the heart as a pump struggles to meet ongoing demand.
There are different types, but in general it's a problem with the actual musculature walls of the chambers of the heart and chronic changes to its chambers' architecture to respond to chronic inability to meet demands of filling chambers and pumping blood out.
There are types of cardiomyopathy directly related to alcohol use. It can also be caused by genetics, valvular heart disease, arrhythmias, etc.
Long story short, this was probably a Norm MacDonald situation. Jeff was probably experiencing symptoms for a long time and not telling anyone.
Symptoms include exteme fatigue, out of proportion exercise intolerance, swelling of the legs, shortness of breath, inability to sleep lying flat due to breathlessness, waking up in the middle of the night to sit up & catch your breath, preferring to sleep erect in a La-Z-Boy, etc.
Fluid retention becomes a major problem with congestive heart failure sufferers since their pump is broken. Even a single fastfood meal has enough sodium to put them in crisis and sent them to ER.
The fact that Jeff was still drinking whiskey & smoking cigars socially is not necessarily the cause of his early death. But it certainly implies he wasn't an ideal, compliant patient.
