Africa: You Really Can Die of Sadness - and Also Happiness

[The Conversation Africa] Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy. It was quickly dubbed "broken heart syndrome".
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news