Breakthroughs in the search for clues to 'broken heart syndrome'

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Breakthroughs in the search for clues to 'broken heart syndrome'

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Genetics professor Martin Kennedy in his lab at Christchurch hospital. The condition seems to have genetic causes and is triggered by huge stress [photo: Iain McGregor]
Genetics professor Martin Kennedy in his lab at Christchurch hospital. The condition seems to have genetic causes and is triggered by huge stress [photo: Iain McGregor/Stuff]

Clue by clue, New Zealand researchers are putting together the many pieces of a heart condition that mostly strikes older women. Will Harvie from Stuff reports

It turned out that Christchurch was the best place in the world to study the puzzling heart condition called stress cardiomyopathy. Better known as