[rktman]

Oh. I was about to call BS on this with reference to those whining anti-Trumpsters out there. Would have been a massive die off. Sort of like fish floating belly up in a red tide.

[willyd]

I say the inflamation is caused by alochol consupmtion or binge eating and not “heart break”... but what do I know?

[Leep]

Mega doses of vitamin C?

[A_Former_Democrat]

I don’t doubt it.

One sees too many couples, one spouse dies, the lonely, grieving spouse follows thereafter. And not by suicide

[circlecity]

I think it’s more that sufficient stress, of any type, can cause inflammation.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Yea, I get to see my sweetie even sooner! Right away I see Jesus.

[KC Burke]

LOL on the anti Trumpers.

But actually this has been long know as Broken Heart Syndrome and only in the last decades more understood. It is now referred to a Takotsubo, a Japanese term the medical community has adopted.

A family member went through this experience. It is fairly uncommon and is generally only confirmed in the cath lab when there is no blockage of cardiac arteries but Cardio Myopathy and enlarged ventricles with poor ejection fraction exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy

Of course, you can always have someone with developed heart disease have a heart attack from exertion, injury or stress.

[Jack Hammer]

Is this ‘inflammation’ of the heart only, or other organs, as well.

[Ancesthntr]

I guess that this guy won’t have much in the way of inflammation:

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At breakfast, the man asked his wife, “What would you do if I won the lottery?”

She replied, “I’d take half, and then leave you.”

“Great,” he said. “I won $12 yesterday. Here’s $6. Stay in touch.”

[mjp]

researchers from Rice University say that people who struggle to overcome grief caused by loss of a loved one are at greater risk of suffering from potentially deadly levels of inflammation.

heartbreak can also cause heart disease:

Heartache and heartbreak--the link between depression and cardiovascular disease.

[mewzilla]

We had a family member who suffered from this after he lost his wife of many decades. The syndrome isn’t BS.

[JoeFromSidney]

It took me a year to work through my grief after my first wife died. We'd been married for 30 years. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

Ten years later I met the woman I'm now married to. She was a widow. I've been very happy since marrying her, but I don't recommend widowhood or widowerhood to anyone.

If it happens to you, don't rush into another marriage. Make sure you've finished grieving before you try for romance again.

[Gay State Conservative]

You read story after story about a person (often a woman) who dies at 90 and her husband,to whom she was married for 70 years,dies a week later.

I can accept the possibility that deep mourning can be fatal.