Broken Heart Syndrome: Have you fallen victim? (1230 hits)
"...A heart can come closer to actually breaking than you might think. "It is a lot like a heart attack in some ways," Dr. Ilan Wittstein said. "People can come in with all the same symptoms that heart attack patients have: chest pain, shortness of breath." Dr. Wittstein at Johns Hopkins Medical Center is among several doctors who identified what's now called "broken heart syndrome."
"In fact a large number of patients who have had this come in after some kind of emotional trauma, such as the death of a loved one, a sudden motor vehicle accident and some kind of fright. "A breakup can cause this," Anderson said. "We've had, actually, a couple of people we've seen in who had a break up or learned about a spouse's infidelity and confronted the spouse, experienced signs and symptoms of the syndrome."
"Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that sudden emotional stress can also result in severe but reversible heart muscle weakness that mimics a classic heart attack. Patients with this condition, called stress cardiomyopathy but known colloquially as "broken heart" syndrome, are often misdiagnosed with a massive heart attack..."
As statistics reveal most of us will or have gone through a major breakup in our lives, I discuss this topic in my latest book entitled, "Food for the Soul", as heart break is another reason why 70% of black women may be single. For more on heart break syndrome, check out "Food for the Soul" available at www.authorhouse.com,www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Have you fallen victim to broken heart syndrome? Or have you experienced a bad breakup, and want to share?
Infidelity is the number one reason cited by women, when asked about the cause of their most recent breakup, for men, the number one reason was that they simply grew apart. What was your reason for your worst or most recent breakup?
