Study Finds You Can Die of a Broken Heart

We’ve all heard about people dying of a “broken heart.”

A new Harvard study suggests it really can happen. Researchers found the risk of heart attack goes way up in the hours and days after the death of a loved one. Researchers interviewed about 2,000 people who’d been hospitalized for a heart attack.

The subjects were questioned about several different risk factors for heart disease as well as other behaviors over the past year. Patients were also asked if they’d recently lost somebody significant in their lives.