RE: Broken heart syndrome...a heart attack with normal coronary arteries.
I believe life is very fast paced in today's modern new age. Females have always been considered inferior to males. Females have less career choices, less social standing and generally less education.
Traditionally boy meets girl and girl normally falls far more " in love " than the guy. This is evident when females find closeness and openness more necessary than a male does.
Over time the female generally passively allows the male into more decision making aspects of their combined lives. This is significantly magnified for the female if she chooses to take many years off to raise young children.
While just one year off might only cause a small bump in job or career aspects; if a female takes 3 years off this is now a major hurdle to reenter the workplace. Five years is often catastrophic to a females career.
Thus some females find it so emotionally catastrophic if something significant happens to their life partner then can literally die from a " broken heart ". Consider the stress of selling a house, divorce or loss of ability to continue your only trained occupation. Any one of these is very stressful, but for an isolated female who has not had any social support network for many years?
It might be bearable if the female has close friends or nearby family especially longer term and significantly around yearly significant anniversaries or holidays . . .
Do i sense a bit of sexism in here? Womenfolk have been successful in getting away from this way of thinking my friend. Dont want to disappoint you but am surrounded with strong women who are making decisions rather than their husbands. I can see that they want to pull their hair most times. Shalom.
Oh OK well not sure where you are living; I myself am living on planet Earth and to suggest that females have the same entitlements as males is simply bizarre.
Females are the most down trodden species on the planet, one just has to consider equal pay or other entitlements etc. All I might suggest is your surroundings are not anything like the average for women even in today's modern new age . . .
Thats a very caveman way of thinking and I find that very offensive.
OK...
I think the strong reaction may be because some of your comments generalize about women as a whole. However, you're talking about half of the Earth's population and the experiences of women in one country (eg) Sweden, one of the most gender-equal versus Afghanistan, one of the worst to be female, would vary widely. So the causes of why this type of heart attack affects women more often may not be that straightforward.
I'm glad to have read this article. It's interesting because I've only heard of one instance where someone died from this and it was a very young female who experienced a lot of stress. She wasn't "oppressed" in the traditional sense but a victim of financial fraud.
Our patients have had sudden stress occurring when admitted yes. It doesnt really matter where they are, who they are with. its an unpredictable response.