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Can You DIE from A Broken Heart!?

28 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Can You DIE from A Broken Heart!?" discussing the medical condition known as broken heart syndrome, or Tokusobu's cardiomyopathy, including its prevalence and mortality rates among men and women.

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Do you think someone can die from a broken heart? The short answer is yes. Really? And there is an actual syndrome. Tokusobu's cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome. Really, it is a thing. Women, it's much more common, but the death rate is very low. Men, it happens much less commonly, but the death rate is much higher. 5 to 8%. Come on. Oh, yeah. It's crazy. But you can't operate on broken heart syndrome. No, you don't have to. There's no blockages. There's no blockages and the valves are working fine. It's just that the heart function, that heart pump that normally is strong is now weak.