While "broken heart syndrome" is relatively rare, this sometimes life-threatening heart condition is on the rise, especially ...

Men are more than twice as likely to die from broken heart syndrome than women, according to a new study. Broken heart syndrome, also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a sudden weakness in the ...

When a loved one passes on and your heart aches — there’s a name for that, and apparently, men are more likely to die from it. The technical term for “broken heart syndrome” is takotsubo ...

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A 59-year-old man arrived at the Peking University First Hospital in Beijing for a procedure when he started having severe chest pain and shortness of breath.Related video above: A 30-minute walk is ...

"Dying from a broken heart" is a phrase we all have heard to describe the emotional pain of heartbreak. The idea has been revisited in songs, film, and books throughout history, or we may have even ...

Researchers have found that a severe form of physical or emotional stress that causes a condition colloquially known as “broken heart syndrome” results in more deaths among men than in women, ...

(NewsNation) — A new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) found that men die from a condition known as “broken heart syndrome” at more than twice the rate that women do.

Broken heart syndrome is more common in women, but men are more than twice as likely to die of it. Emotional or physical stress can trigger broken heart syndrome, and symptoms can mimic a heart attack ...