A 'broken heart' is not just drama, it
certainly isn’t some disgusting lunacy, and most definitely not a product
of desparation.
It is a traumatic physical event supported and solidified by science.
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is the scientific term for what we commonly know as the 'broken heart syndrome'. It is triggered by an emotional or physical shock, very similar to the trauma or shock that someone who has gone through an accident or has heard of a shocking news experiences. However, the Takotsubo cardiomyopathy often affects women and puts a person in serious danger of up to 48 hours.
It is a traumatic physical event supported and solidified by science.
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is the scientific term for what we commonly know as the 'broken heart syndrome'. It is triggered by an emotional or physical shock, very similar to the trauma or shock that someone who has gone through an accident or has heard of a shocking news experiences. However, the Takotsubo cardiomyopathy often affects women and puts a person in serious danger of up to 48 hours.
Brown University cardiology fellow Richard Regnante, M.D. said that those suffering from Takotsubo cardiomyopathy can even experience cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, or severe heart failure. This can lead to worse things like the need advanced life support with airway management and medications to support blood pressure.
Yes, someone who has been cheated on, left at the alter, broken up with, lied to, and others can actually get a heart attack even when there is no blockage in the coronary arteries. A test has already been conducted on 40 patients that were diagnosed with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Of these, 95% were women and 60% were already going through the early stages of a heart attack even before they reach the hospital. The tests were conducted in Rhode Island over a period of nearly 2½ years.
Unlike other diseases, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy does not have a pattern. Something that even the rarest diseases has. Some of the women were at their physical healthiest but they suffer the hardest while some show very little signs leading to the heart attack. Some even develop Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a very slow phase.
There is no stereotype on who can get the broken heart syndrome. You can be the most successful and most stubborn woman in the world and still get your heart broken into million pieces. You can be the jolliest person who manages to smile even in the hardest of time and still break down and cry.
I guess that’s just how love is. No amount of science can explain it. You can go through years of study and not find an answer. Yeah, it can drive even the most credible doctors nuts finding a pattern.
It all depends on how a person handles love, stress, depression… and lost.
There was an article in a Virginia Commonwealth University study title Love Beats Depression for Women, Not Men. The research stated, “Supportive, loving relationships offer women protection against major depression but don't seem to play a role in male depression.”
Now, two sciences are involved: Cardiology and Neuroscience. But guess what? They still don’t have definite answers. They see signs and clues but no definite conclusion. They think stress hormones play a part and age too but that’s what it is… they think but they are not sure.
Ilan S. Wittstein of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine said that a broken heart doesn't kill the heart muscle like a typical heart attack, but it renders it helpless.
Yes… “it” renders us helpless and there is nothing science can do anything about it.
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