Is there such thing as Broken Heart Syndrome?

From reading Wuthering Heights and focusing on the character Heathcliff, i decided to look into whether dying of a broken heart really is a real thing. When Cathy dies, Heathcliff just seems to go downhill from there and become more and more weak.

Women are more likely than men to get the sudden, intense chest pain. The chest pain is a reaction to a surge of stress hormones that can be caused by an emotionally traumatic event.

Broken Heart Syndrome may be misdiagnosed as a heart attack because the symptoms and test results are similar. However, unlike a heart attack, there is no evidence of blocked heart arteries in Broken Heart Syndrome.

Broken heart syndrome can lead to severe, short term heart muscle failure.

Symptoms:
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath

Causes:
- Unexpected death of a loved one
- Frightening medical diagnosis
- Domestic abuse
- Losing a lot of money
- Physical stress factors (car accident, major surgery)



References:
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Is broken heart syndrome real? (2015) Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/Cardiomyopathy/Is-Broken-Heart-Syndrome-Real_UCM_448547_Article.jsp#.Vw_qi2NeBZ0 (Accessed: 14 April 2016).
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Staff, M.C. (2014) ‘Broken heart syndrome symptoms’, Mayoclinic, .