Are you under any significant stress?' one of the cardiologists asked me during rounds the next morning. I stared at him ...

You can actually die of a broken heart after the death of a loved one, especially if the grief is overwhelming, new research ...

People with the most intense, longest-lasting grief were significantly more likely to die within a decade of a loved one’s ...

Broken heart syndrome can cause sudden chest pain and shortness of breath within minutes or hours of a stressful event, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. For some, it can feel like they’re ...

People who experience high levels of grief were more likely to die in the decade after their loved one passed than those with ...

Stress, like heartbreak from grief, can trigger a heart attack which can be fatal. Here's how it can also cause Takotsobu (broken heart) syndrome.

With Broken Heart Syndrome, the middle part of the heart and the top are not squeezing, but the bottom part seems to be spared. Imagine a boxing glove and what it looks like after all of the ...

The study looked at a total of 199,890 patients with "broken heart syndrome" who were over the age of 18 from 2016 to 2020, according to what was published in the journal.

“The broken heart syndrome was triggered by the breakup and my uncle’s death,” she said. “With broken-heart syndrome, it’s a mental thing which affects your heart.

Thus, when major heart attacks leave your heart broken, it can be very difficult or even impossible to unbreak your heart, in the words of Toni Braxton. Broken heart syndrome is quite different.

Mary Kay Abramson, 63, of Brookeville, Md., experienced an episode of broken heart syndrome after being furloughed from her job in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.