'Broken heart syndrome' may not just be linked to sadness and stress -- it can also happen after joyful life events, a new study suggests. Researchers are calling it 'happy heart syndrome.'
Previous reports have shown that takotsubo syndrome can be caused by negative emotional triggers, physical triggers such as heavyor medical procedures, a combination of emotional and physical triggers, or neither type of trigger, the authors say. Research shows physical triggers are most often linked to bad outcomes.
Extreme emotions, both negative and positive, can in rare cases cause takotsubo syndrome, although most patients who experience sorrow or joy in their day-to-day life do not develop the condition, says Jason H. Rogers, MD, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.
In the new study, the researchers assessed 2,482 patients using the GErman-Italian-Spanish Takotsubo Registry, one of the largest in the world of these cases, to compare triggers and outcomes of those with broken and happy heart syndrome. Patients with happy heart syndrome more often had abnormal ballooning of the heart and were more often male than those who had a negative triggering event.
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