Sudden Stress Breaks Hearts, A Study Shows.

Reports that sudden emotional stress – from grief, fear, anger or shock – can cause heart failure, in a little known and poorly understood syndrome that seems to affect primarily women. Reference to the fact that the victims are generally healthy, with no history of heart disease; Examples of some of the incidents that can lead to an attack, including a death in the family, an armed robbery, a car accident, a biopsy procedure and a surprise party; Suggestion in the new research on the condition, nicknamed broken heart syndrome by doctors, that there may be some truth to the old idea that people can be scared to death or die from sorrow.