Broken heart disease
Not only cigarettes and pork engine wear life.
Gradually, scientists discover with amazement that there are strong links between our emotional universe and heart health.
Gradually, scientists discover with amazement that there are strong links between our emotional universe and heart health.
A new medical discipline, psycho-cardiology, explores when and how fear, anger and sadness put our life-threatening.
A heart of stone
She has never smoked. He went regularly to swimming. Cholesterol levels are okay, a bit below normal blood pressure. C.P. is a healthy person model.
But in the summer of 2007 ... C.P. collapses at her home with severe pain in the chest and left arm jaw.
Her daughter called the ambulance: it seems that it was a heart attack. At the hospital, doctors could not believe.
When examining the coronary vessels, looking for narrowing or obstruction of portions which normally constitutes a heart attack, they do not find anything.
Her daughter called the ambulance: it seems that it was a heart attack. At the hospital, doctors could not believe.
When examining the coronary vessels, looking for narrowing or obstruction of portions which normally constitutes a heart attack, they do not find anything.
Only after an ultrasound, which reveal an unusual strain of the heart, doctors fail to reach a conclusion: CP suffer from so-called "broken heart syndrome."
Fortunately, says doctors, the disease is not a danger to the patient's life, but early symptoms are identical with those of a heart attack. Case are stress hormones that paralyze for a short time the heart muscle.
A year and a half ago, her husband died of lung cancer, after 45 years of marriage.
C.P. care of him day and night, and after his death, for months had panic attacks.
Losing her husband broke her heart.
C.P. care of him day and night, and after his death, for months had panic attacks.
Losing her husband broke her heart.
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