Broken heart syndrome in men vs. women Similar to differences between men’s and women’s cardiovascular health more generally, the discrepancies in TC death rates are not well understood ...

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 ...

The study from JAHA analyzed data from 200,000 adults in the U.S. who were hospitalized with broken heart syndrome from 2016 to 2020. In that group, around 11% of men died from the condition ...

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’s lead author, Dr Mohammad Movahed, suggested to NBC News that men may find it harder to recover from sudden broken heart syndrome because they often lack sufficient social support to ...

Although broken heart syndrome is most common in women, men die from it at more than twice the rate, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The ...

The study analyzed data from nearly 200,000 adults in the U.S. who were hospitalized with broken heart syndrome from 2016 to 2020. Around 11% of men in that group died, compared with roughly 5% of ...

A Lee County woman's experience with a mysterious heart condition has shed new light on broken heart syndrome, a condition triggered by sudden emotional distress without blocked arteries.

A slab of wall art, The “Battle to Survive a Broken Heart,’ created by the artist Banksy, sits on display inside the Brookfield Place atrium, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in New York.