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Until recently, broken heart syndrome was considered a relatively rare disease, but a new study has found that it affects more and more women in certain age groups.
What are the symptoms and how is the disease detected?
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Wednesday, 03 November 2021, 09:21 Updated: 09:55
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This may sound like an invented disease or a mental condition at all, but a broken heart syndrome is a medical condition for everything.
Now, a new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds that it is on the rise, especially among women between the ages of 50 and 74.
Broken heart syndrome, also known as Tacotsovo cardiomyopathy (Japanese, traps used to capture octopuses and similar in shape to a broken heart). It is a medical phenomenon first described in 1980 by American pathologists who found that 11 out of 15 people who underwent a post-mortem had unique structural changes in the heart.
It is estimated that one to two percent of patients who come to the emergency room with symptoms identical to a heart attack are diagnosed with a broken heart syndrome.
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The disease is usually preceded by extreme shock, stress or loss, and the symptoms include chest pain so severe that they feel like a heart attack, fainting and shortness of breath.
Lead researcher in research Dr. Susan Cheng from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center says the trigger could also be something more minor, like a surprise party or anything unexpected, from a car accident to a romantic breakup.
Most often the trigger is events like divorce, death of a relative or trauma.
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Research shows that although the disease is not common, it is also not as rare as once thought.
Researchers found 135,463 cases in the United States from 2006 to 2017, and -88.3 percent of them were involved women aged 50 and over. In fact, cases rose at the fastest speed (six times at least) with women from ages 50 to 74.
The main symptoms of broken heart syndrome They are a sudden and intense pain in the chest, which is an expression of a burst of stress hormones - which can be caused by an emotionally stressful event.
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The manifestations of the syndrome may include chest pain and shortness of breath, heart rhythm disorders and even an extreme condition like cardiogenic shock, in which heart function is weakened until it fails to meet the body’s needs.
Unlike a heart attack, in most cases the syndrome can be fully treated and restored to heart function within a few weeks, and those who have experienced the syndrome in the past are at low risk of having it again.
Usually, recovery time is fast and ranges from a few days to weeks.
"Men and women have different biology and susceptibility to disease," Cheng says, "and these differences even intensify over time, and in this study it seems to be applicable here as well."
Greater awareness has a part to play in the increase in case documentation, but Cheng says environmental factors not yet identified are probably another factor.
Future research will try to identify who may be the most vulnerable.
"There's probably some basic genetic predisposition," she says.
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