• Question: is a broken heart actually a physical condition?

    Asked by funkygirl15 to Sadaf, Katie, Andrew on 27 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      Yes – there is such a thing termed ‘Broken heart syndrome’ which is what people are referring to when they say someone has died ‘from a broken heart’

      Broken heart syndrome is the name for sudden heart failure that comes on after emotional trauma

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