Broken hearts, literally.

          Can you die of a broken heart? Recent studies now show that stress and despair can significantly influence health, especially the heart. One of the most striking examples is a condition known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken-heart syndrome, in which the death of a spouse, financial worries or some other emotional event severely weakens the heart, causing symptoms that mimic a heart attack. Dr. Jauhar, author of "Heart:A History," argues that the field of cardiology needs to devote more attention to the emotional factors that can effect heart disease, for example, unhappy relationships, poverty, income inequality and work stress. Up until the 19th century doctors didn't even want to operate on the heart because as Dr. Jauhar said “You can’t suture something that’s moving, and you couldn’t cut it because the patient would bleed to death.”
           Overall I believe that this is an issue that needs to be looked at more carefully because it seems like a growing problem and we need ways to avoid it.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/well/live/how-emotions-can-affect-the-heart.html?action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

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  1. AnonymousNovember 7, 2018 at 6:45 AM

    This is very interesting to note that emotional factors can lead to heart problems, and that more research will be going into this. It will be interesting to see if there will ever be a cure for this "broken heart syndrome"

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