Study: Happiness Can Trigger ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ Too

  • 8 years ago
Extreme distress has been known to affect the cardiac functions and can cause ‘broken heart syndrome.’ Now, researchers from University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, have found that happiness can also trigger the condition which is officially called Takotsubo syndrome, or TTS.

Extreme distress has been known to affect the cardiac functions and can cause ‘broken heart syndrome.’ 
Now, researchers from University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, have found that happiness can also trigger the condition which is officially called Takotsubo syndrome, or TTS. 
They came to this conclusion in a recent study by analyzing data from 1,750 patients on the International Takotsubo Registry.
Out of 485 people with emotional triggers, 96 percent had ex

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