The syndrome used to be “easy to miss and hard to recognize,” but there’s increasing awareness of it now, doctors say.
The exact reasons aren’t known yet, but cardiologists have some theories.
It's clear there’s a brain-heart connection when you look at broken heart syndrome, she noted. Risk factors like high cholesterol, smoking andcreate the setup for developing heart disease, but what actually triggers a cardiac event? Takotsubo cardiomyopathy shows it can be stress — emotional, physical or environmental — that perturbs the brain-heart access, she noted.
In broken heart syndrome, the fight-or-flight stress hormones surge out of proportion to the situation, while at the same time, the sensitivity to that spike is particularly profound in the affected patients, impacting the heart muscle and the heart cells, Cheng said.Up until the new data, researchers thought the oldest people would be the most vulnerable to takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Instead, the incidence was “particularly rapidly rising” in women 50 to 74 years old.
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