India, May 15 -- Recently, the scientists published a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association about a stress-related heart condition called 'broken heart syndrome', which is also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
"Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a serious condition with a substantial risk of death and severe complications," said study author Dr. Mohammad Reza Movahed, an interventional cardiologist and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart Center.
"If you have this stressful trigger, and the stress is not gone, that's probably going to continue to harm the heart, or at least reduce the chance of recovery."
The study looked at nearly 200,000 U.S. adults hospitalized with this condition betw...