Sentences with phrase «with broken heart syndrome»

Of the 200 or so people with broken heart syndrome he and his colleagues have studied, roughly 40 % have a history of anxiety or depression, and many have been on antidepressants, he says.

«When we do angiograms of the arteries [in people with broken heart syndrome], there isn't any obstruction of the coronary arteries,» says Nieca Goldberg, MD, the director of the Women's Heart Center at New York University Langone Medical Center.

Not exact matches

Her problem is referred to as the «broken heart syndrome» and almost always manifests in women with some extreme psychological distress.

It's even possible for a breakup to result in something called broken heart syndrome, a temporary enlargement of the heart (with symptoms mimicking a heart attack) brought on by extreme physical or emotional stress.

Broken heart syndrome may look and feel like a heart attack (which can also be caused by acute stress), but unlike with heart attacks, blocked arteries aren't to blame.

Officially known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, broken heart syndrome is a rare heart condition with symptoms that can mimic those of a heart attack.