• Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What’s the causal factor for the increased mortality rate? I hear it’s “a broken heart” but that isn’t really a medical diagnosis.

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      1 year ago

      It is called “broken heart syndrome”.

      "Broken heart syndrome is a condition that can cause rapid and reversive heart muscle weakness, also known as stress cardiomyopathy.

      What causes broken heart syndrome? Two kinds of stress — emotional or physical — often cause broken heart syndrome. But while most people with this condition experience a stressful event, up to 30% of patients have no identifiable trigger at the time of their initial symptoms.

      Emotional Stressors Emotional stressors include:

      -Grief

      -Fear

      -Extreme anger

      -Surprise

      source

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      1 year ago

      They’re statistics and actuarial sciences papers, not medical ones. They are not bussy looking for the underlining reasons of why that happens, bit how can be measured to make better models.