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A study found that the number of those diagnosed with takotsubo syndrome, as it is called, is increasing but the condition is rarely fatal.

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… [+4165 chars]

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