Can You Actually Die from a Broken Heart?
It turns out this common phrase might have more of a basis in truth than you thought! We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey....
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[♩INTRO] It sounds like a scene from a soap opera: someone loses their soul mate, then passes away in the night, seemingly from a broken heart. But it’s not just a trope of fiction -- broken heart syndrome is real and in very rare cases, it can even be fatal. Broken heart syndrome, aka stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a weakening of the heart that can cause similar symptoms to regular cardiomyopathy, or heart muscle disease: chest pain, shortness of breath, and sometimes changes in heart rhythm. It’s so similar, in fact, that the syndrome wasn’t identified until the 1990s. But there’s one key difference. In stress-induced cardiomyopathy, patients don’t have blocked arteries the most common cause of heart disease. And when you X-ray t...
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[♩INTRO] It sounds like a scene from a soap opera: someone loses their soul mate, then passes away in the night, seemingly from a broken heart. But it’s not just a trope of fiction -- broken heart syndrome is real and in very rare cases, it can even be fatal. Broken heart syndrome, aka stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a weakening of the heart that can cause similar symptoms to regular cardiomyopathy, or heart muscle disease: chest pain, shortness of breath, and sometimes changes in heart rhythm. It’s so similar, in fact, that the syndrome wasn’t identified until the 1990s. But there’s one key difference. In stress-induced cardiomyopathy, patients don’t have blocked arteries the most common cause of heart disease. And when you X-ray t...
