Inevitable life event that affects millions of people who are linked to premature death, experts warn

A new study has shown that ‘very intensely’ grief can send you to an early grave.

The findings come from a Danish study from 1,735 relatives, with an average age of 62, who looked at the relationship between death and intensity of sorrow.

Researchers measured how intense people experienced sadness by the Long-term mourning-13 scale.

The relatives with the highest intensity sadness that continued to exist, had double the risk of premature death for ten years.

This was compared to those who reported that they experienced the lowest levels of sorrow after losing a loved one.

Researchers do not know the exact cause of the increased mortality that is observed in people with high levels of sorrow.

But the main author of the study, Dr. Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen, an expert in the field of public health at Aarhus University, said: “We have previously found a connection between high mourning symptom levels and higher percentages of cardiovascular diseases, psychological problems and even suicide.”

They also discovered that those with the most intense grief had prescribed the treatment of mental health care before they lost a loved one.

So, Dr. Nielsen said MedicalExpress: “A general practitioner could look for earlier signs of depression and other serious psychological disorders.”

This would enable them to refer them to relevant secondary care or follow-up mourning agreements that focus on mental health, she advised.

The study that started in 2012 followed participants who were of an average age of 62 for ten years.

It identified five ‘mourning processes’ that categorized how participants experienced their grief.

The most common, experienced with 38 percent, was ‘persistently low levels of mourning symptoms’.

Then almost a fifth ‘high but decreasing’ symptoms had ‘moderate but decreasing’ sorrow.

Another nine percent of the participants started with lower levels of sorrow that increased, peaking after six months before he took.

In the study, only six percent of the participants reported the highest levels of sorrow

The six percent with the highest sorrow ‘symptoms that remained over time were people with a higher risk of early death.

Earlier, experts warned, discovered that sadness can cause broken heart syndrome, also known as Takotsubo -Cardiomyopathy

The life -threatening phenomenon, which affects around 2500 British every year, is a response from the heart to a sudden release of stress hormones.

This ensures that part of the heart is temporarily enlarged and struggles to pump blood properly.

Experts say it can cause the same symptoms and complications as a heart attack that can be life threatening.

However, unlike those who undergo heart attacks, broken heart syndrome is not linked to blocked arteries.

But it can be incorrectly diagnosed as a heart attack, giving patients the right treatment.

Earlier, MailOnline reported that scientists at the University of Aberdeen claimed that the syndrome is not being treated correctly.

Their five -year study, based on 4,000 people in Scotland, showed about a quarter of patients with the disorder.

Analysis also showed that medicines used to prevent heart attacks did not improve the survival percentage of Takotsubo-Cardiomyopathy, even though it was the go-to treatment.

Their findings came after the ex-partner of Sinead O’Connor insisted that the star, 56, died of a broken ‘broken heart’.

Her son Shane took his own life 18 months before the singer passed. Her death certificate officially states that she died of natural causes.