Men are likely to die twice from ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ compared to women: Study
A new study suggests that men have twice the mortality rate from ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ than men. Researchers warn serious risks and call for better treatment options.
Men are likely to die twice due to stress-inspired heart failure known as “Broken Heart Syndrome” compared to men, a new study has been found compared to women, despite that the situation among women is more common.
The Broken Heart syndrome, which is medically known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, often arises from acute emotional or physical stress such as the death of a loved one is a heart condition that causes a heart attack.
It causes symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, heartbeat and many cases, irregular heartbeat. This can cause serious complications or even death if not treated immediately.
The study published in The Journal of the American Heart Association analyzed the health records of about 2,00,000 US adults from 2016 to 2020.
Researchers found that there was no signal of improvement in a period of five years, the overall mortality rate was 6.5%higher than the situation. While the condition of 5.5% of women was diagnosed, the mortality rate for men was significantly higher at 11.2%.
“Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a serious condition with sufficient risk of death and serious complications,” the author of the study, Dr. Mohammad Reza Moved said, “is a traditional cardiologist and professor at Arizona Server Heart Center University. He consistently called high mortality “dangerous”, which urges more concentrated research to improve treatment.
The study found that older adults, especially over 61 people, were the weakest, although even in adults between 46 to 60 years of age, there was 2.6 to 3.25 times more, which is likely to develop a situation compared to young adults between 31 and 45.
White adults had the highest phenomenon of 0.16%position, followed by original American (0.13%) and black adults (0.07%).
Many complications were observed in patients: heart failure in 35.9%, at 20.7%atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), cardiogenic blow in 6.6%, stroke in 5.3%and cardiac arrest in 3.4%. Movahed emphasized that many of these serious complications could be prevented by potentially initial treatment and monitoring.
The study also found that socio -economic factors such as domestic income, hospital size, and insurance conditions, results, although the exact role requires more investigation.
While the exact cause of high mortality in men is not clear, researchers suspect hormonal differences or may contribute to high rate factors of physical stress in men.
Dr. Movahed urged doctors to be vigilant to this under-charity position, especially experienced significant stress in older patients, and called better treatment options to help reduce its deadly tolls.
