Broken Heart Syndrome Research Paper

Doctors currently know why people can die from a broken heart. Rob Stein from The Washington Post reported that researchers have revealed that trauma “Can unleash a flood of stress hormones that can stun the heart causing sudden life threatening heart spasms in otherwise healthy people” (Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart 1). Rob Stein proclaims that stress hormones can alarm the heart, putting people’s lives at risk. According to Stein, the rush of stress hormones to the heart is quite alarming. The heart is not used to the amount of stress hormones sent to it, thus causing it to spasm. Muscle spasms are quite normal, but the spasming of the heart can be quite dangerous to an individual’s health since it is the organ that pumps …show more content…
Rob Stein asserts that the phenomenon, broken heart syndrome, can be diagnosed as a heart attack by many doctors and this can be very dangerous for patients. Stein suggests that this phenomenon is very rare and is very similar to a heart attack. The rarity of this disease causes many doctors to misdiagnose patients, claiming they had a heart attack. The misdiagnosis of broken heart syndrome leads to doctors not being able to help patients in the way they need to be helped, and in some cases, the treatments used to help those who suffered a heart attack would harm the patient with broken heart syndrome. The misdiagnosis and wrong treatment could cause long term damage and even death. Not much has been researched about broken heart syndrome in the United States of America, but Rob Stein reports that “ a syndrome resembling a heart attack in otherwise healthy people after acute emotional stress has been reported in Japan” (Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart 2). Rob Stein insists that this phenomenon has also occurred in other parts of the world, such as