Happiness can break your heart – doctors

PARIS: Joyful events—the birth of a child, a big win by your team—can trigger a dangerous condition called the “broken heart syndrome,” doctors and researchers reported on Thursday.

Takotsubo syndrome, as it is also known, involves the sudden weakening of heart muscles, causing the left ventricle—the chamber which pushes oxygen-rich blood through the body—to balloon out abnormally at the bottom.