Time may heal wounds for some, but for others, the damage is permanent, and it's physical.
So say researchers at the University of Aberdeen after examining MRI scans of the hearts of patients with takotsubo syndrome, otherwise known as broken-heart syndrome. The syndrome, which nine out of 10 times is found in women and seven times out of 10 times is directly linked to an emotional stressor, like the death of a loved one, happens when the heart is literally stunned, per Bustle.
This causes a change in the heart's pumping and squeezing motions and results in tiny scarring that makes the organ more stiff and not able to contract properly, reports the BBC. Symptoms are similar to cardiac arrest.
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