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Dying of a broken heart not just a saying
Tom Gross
'SHE BROKE HIS HEART." Or maybe he broke hers. Either way, we have all heard of at least one occasion when that really happened. We all know of elderly spouses passing away within months of each other. We all know of heart attacks, which were precipitated by significantly stressful life events.
A few decades ago, if you asked a physician if it was possible to die of a broken heart, you would have received a discussion of narrowed arteries and plaque and various other cardiovascular pathologies. Even though the connection of stress and heart disease had been well described, the notion that a healthy heart could actually succumb to grief, or to any of the other acute manifestations of stress in our lives, would have been met with the raised eyebrow of scientific disbelief.
Lately, scientific observation, coupled with carefully designed prospective research, is revealing what many of us have already noted in the lives of those around us; namely, that a heart can shatter as easily as a window pane.
The condition is actually named Broken Heart Syndrome, and is well recognized in the cardiology literature. Also known as Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy or Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy, it is currently being investigated by Drs. Gupta and Lundstrom at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
The effect upon the heart muscle of chronic stress has been recognized for many years. Cardiac medications, called beta-blockers, formerly used with great caution in patients with heart failure, have actually been proved to prevent many of the effects of chronic stress upon the heart muscle, or myocardium. Stressful events often cause the release of adrenalinee into your bloodstream. The pounding in your chest, the shaking hands, the dry mouth and the tremor in your voice that you feel after you almost get run over by a runaway taxicab are all because of the effects of this adrenaline release. Also known as catecholamine, this hormone accelerates your pulse and raises your blood pressure, with a sudden narrowing of the arteries that may restrict blood flow into the myocardium. If the coronary arteries become narrowed enough, a heart attack may result. Acute emotional stress is now becoming identified as an independent risk factor for heart disease, as significant as high cholesterol or tobacco use.
Think of your heart. It starts beating before you are born, before you take your first breath. Think of how it keeps beating, faithfully, through all of your life's events, such as your first kiss, prom night, your wedding, your first surgery and innumerable stressful Christmas holidays with relatives. It's the beating of your heart that defines whether you are alive or not. You may be able to live without a kidney, although you will be hooked to dialysis. But once your faithful heart stops beating, it's all over.
Recent research suggests that it is possible to block the effects of acute stress upon the heart. In a program called "Big Mind, Brave Heart, Bright Future", Dr. John Kennedy, a cardiologist and director of the cardiac catheterization facility at Kaiser in Terra Linda, teaches children about the effects upon the heart of poor diet, inactivity and stress. Kennedy points out how much stress we are putting upon our children, as well as upon ourselves. His program teaches children how to recognize the onset of acute stress, and how to overcome the stressors.
Valentines' Day is only a few days away, a holiday whose symbol is a heart pierced by Cupid's arrow. How appropriate an image this is, for an organ that symbolizes life itself, and yet is easily vulnerable to the slings and arrows of our emotions.
The cardiologist in a recent abstract in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, describe it as follows: "emotional stress can precipitate severe left ventricular dysfunction in patients without coronary disease. Exaggerated sympathetic stimulation is probably central to the cause of this syndrome."
The rest of us would just say, "He died of a broken heart."
It's Valentine's Day. Let's be careful out there.
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