Read More: Why Are We Addicted to Love? The term "broken heart syndrome" was coined in 1990, when a Japanese researcher noticed that stress can cause parts of the heart to temporarily enlarge and ...

Sponsor Message She was diagnosed with stress cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome. You may think of a broken heart as a metaphorical idea, but this is a real condition that can ...

Just under 7% of people with broken heart syndrome died between 2016 and 2020, researchers found. That’s nearly three times higher than the death rate of more than 2% among people without ...