Heartaches would have real repercussions on our hearts. They would even damage the heart muscle in the long run.
Scottish researchers compared 52 patients with broken heart syndrome to 44 healthy control subjects of the same age and sex to better understand this broken heart syndrome also known as “Tako-Tsubo”. A small storm from time to time, it happens to all couples, to all friends … But we must go to war against the repeated arguments which, according to these researchers, could increase the risk of premature death. Especially in men.
You don’t have to be a doctor to know that arguing isn’t a good thing. But arguing regularly could increase the risk of premature death and cost a few years of life.
Doubling the risk of death
Frequent conflicts are clearly associated with a doubling or even tripling the risk of death from all causes compared to a peaceful social life. These are rather very classic arguments. Most admit frequent conflicts with the partner or children, a little less with other relatives and finally some with friends or neighbors. Men and women are not equal when it comes to these “post-household” risks and it is rather the men who pay the bill. Especially unemployed men.
The broken heart is not just a poet’s metaphor
For women, this is another risk that dominates. An intense emotion can be at the origin of a kind of female infarction… It’s called “Tako Tsubo” and it’s a real curiosity that comes to us from Japan. In Japanese, “Tako Tsubo” means “octopus trap”. We could summarize this disease by saying that it is about a heart attack which occurs only in the woman, after a violent stress, most of the time an argument with the mother-in-law, the husband or the children! A funny manifestation of anger that shows all the signs of a heart attack, especially the pain. But when these women arrive at the hospital, all the examinations are normal… except the aspect of the heart which is deformed, in the shape of the “octopus trap” used by traditional Japanese fishing. Hence the name of this disease. Normally, everything should return to order after 2 days of monitoring.
It also happens in France
Since the description of this disease by the Japanese, practically all French cardiologists have realized that they had encountered this phenomenon, which would be far from confidential.
Previous studies have already shown that high anxiety levels can increase, for example, the risk of a heart problem or stroke. In the case of Tako Tsubo, we have just discovered the explanation: under the effect of stress, the nervous system that manages our emotions panics and causes disorientation of the tip of the heart.
Who will dare to deny after that that matters of the heart are in fact matters of the head! Conversely, if you are caring and kind, you live better because there is still a moral to this story: according to many studies, good social relations and a large network of friends can have positive effects for the family. health.
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