The sudden or dramatic weakening of the heart from emotional or physical stress tends to affect more women. A North Texas cardiologist explains what may lead to a higher mortality rate for men.

These days, she sings it third to last, so if a fight does break out, the girls can just finish out the show with a literal bang if that’s what they’re into. “So we moved it down into what we call the ...

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association reveals that men are over twice as likely to die from takotsubo cardiomyopathy, commonly known as "broken heart syndrome ...

A new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association found that men die from a condition known as “broken heart syndrome” at more than twice the rate that women do.

“Don’t go breaking my heart.” When a loved one passes on and your heart aches — there’s a name for that, and apparently, men are more likely to die from it.

Share on Pinterest “Broken heart syndrome” is more common in women, but men may be far more likely to die from it, according to new research. Kobus Louw/Getty Images “Broken heart syndrome ...

People older than 61 had the highest rates of broken heart syndrome, researchers said. However, there was as much as a threefold higher risk of the syndrome among people 46 to 60 compared to those ...

The term “broken heart syndrome” was coined in 1990, when a Japanese researcher noticed that stress can cause parts of the heart to temporarily enlarge and affect the ability of the organ to pump ...

Most People With Broken Heart Syndrome Are Women, but for Men It’s More Likely to Be Fatal Using a large national hospital database, researchers identified nearly 200,000 people diagnosed with ...

The study looked at a total of 199,890 patients with broken heart syndrome who were over the age of 18 from 2016 to 2020, according to what was published in the journal.

Can a broken heart kill you? Men are twice as likely to die from the stress-related heart condition commonly called "broken heart syndrome" compared to women, according to new research.