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Some mentioned this broken heart syndrome. is it possible to get it from bad marriage?
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Broken heart syndrom: Broken heart or stress cardiomyopathy is caused by stress of break up or death of a loved one.So theoretically loss of a life partner you love and leaves you and you still love can contrbute to stress cardiomyopathy.This condition gets better with treatmnt and is reversible.
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