Study: Can you die from excessive sadness and happiness?

Scientists have recently discovered that you can die from excessive happiness.

Death due to excessive sadness had been discussed in 2002 when Dr. Hikaru Sato and his colleagues at Hiroshima Hospital described it in a study. Sato called the situation tacotsubo cardiomypati. It was called “

In the meantime, scientists have recently discovered that you can also die from excessive happiness. And it's the same situation: tacotsubo cardiopathia. Of course, it's called the happy heart syndrome”.

So, what is tacotsubo cardiopathia, or tacotsubo syndrome, as it is also known? And why do some people die from it? First, it should be noted that tacotsubo cardiopathia is rarely fatal. As with other cardiopathies (the heart muscle disease), most people recover within months without long - term heart injury, I follow Clancosova. tv

It's called this because people with this condition have an abnormally left belly. Sato thought that the shape, narrow to the top and balloon at the bottom, resembled ceramic pots used to catch octopuses (takotsubo), so his name was given.

This balloon weakens the heart muscle, affecting its ability to pump blood effectively.

A study of some 135 thousand people in the United States found that the number of people diagnosed with this situation steadily increased over the 11 years that the study was conducted (2006-2017). It is more common among women (88 percent) and is most common among people aged 50 and older.

Until recently, this syndrome of the broken <x0-heart” was shown in connection with considerable emotional or physical stress. The precise mechanism with which stress causes a change in heart form and subsequent symptoms ʹ chest pain and panting yet to be fully understood.

Recently, researchers in Germany have described patients with tacotsubo syndrome caused by happy events, such as weddings, grandchildren, and the gaining of the first prize.

Of the 910 patients in the study who had an emotional incentive for tacotsubo syndrome, 37 had happy heart syndrome, and 873 had heart syndrome. Unlike broken heart syndrome, which affects women primarily, happy heart syndrome has been observed most in males.

Researchers found that happy heart deaths and complications and broken heart syndrome are almost the same - rare.

So don't worry about being excited about the big events of life. They're very unlikely to kill you. But if you feel pain or pressure in your chest, always seek medical help.