Once, you could die of a ‘broken heart’. Now ‘too much’ happiness can kill you too - ThePrint

Researchers in Germany have described patients with takotsubo syndrome triggered by happy events. And it was observed mostly in men.

Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy… [+4022 chars]

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