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How does it work? First off, a person who is grieving an intense emotional loss, be it death, severe depression, or just your run-of-the-mill bad breakup, is likely to not take very good care of themselves. They'll get less sleep. They'll neglect medication. They'll neglect to eat, or they just won't eat with any regard to health (read: copious amounts of ice cream). Potentially, they'll drink and smoke more. You see, the grieving process increases cortisol levels in the blood. Intense grief brings on psychological stress, increased heart rate, blood pressure, and clotting, and there you have a perfect recipe for a heart attack.

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" Broken Heart Syndrome: How heartbreak can literally kill you "

An article published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association says that heart attack risk is a jaw-dropping 21 times higher when one's heart is broken.

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