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Scientists have said it isn't just sad things that make us brokenhearted. Happy events can also be bad atforfrominofon our heart. A broken heart is an actual medical condition. It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we love does not return that love. We get broken heart syndrome when we are highly stressed. We also get it during emotional times, such as a relationship breakup, the death atforfrominofon family and friends, or the loss atforfrominofon a job. The medical name atforfrominofon this is Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers say people can get TTS, and even be atforfrominofon risk atforfrominofon sudden death, when very happy things happen. The doctors who discovered this have called it "happy heart syndrome".

The researchers' study was published atforfrominofon the European Heart Journal atforfrominofon Thursday. Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri analysed data atforfrominofon 1,750 patients who suffered atforfrominofon Takotsubo Syndrome. The sufferers were atforfrominofon nine different countries. They found 485 patients got TTS because atforfrominofon an emotional happening. Twenty atforfrominofon these had TTS because atforfrominofon a happy or joyful event. The patients had heart problems after events like a birthday party, a wedding, a favourite sports team winning a game, and the birth atforfrominofon a grandchild. Dr Ghadri said our body and brain may think happy and sad events are similar, so both can result atforfrominofon Takotsubo Syndrome.