Broken heart syndrome

2022 - 5 - 26

joe garcia

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Grieving husband of teacher killed in Texas school shooting has ... (NBC News)

The husband of one of the teachers killed in a Texas school shooting this week collapsed and died on Thursday while preparing for his wife's funeral, ...

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Teacher Irma Garcia was killed in the Texas school shooting. Her ... (CBS News)

The family of Irma and Joe Garcia say they were high school sweethearts who had been together for more than 25 years.

"They were in front of my classmates to help," he said. According to the association, it is often misdiagnosed as a heart attack because of similar symptoms. Dying from grief, known as broken heart syndrome, is caused by a surge of stress hormones, according to the American Heart Association, that is usually caused by an emotionally stressful event. "No child should have to go through this," Martinez tweeted. "I truly believe Joe died of a broken heart," Irma Garcia's cousin Debra Austin wrote on a GoFundMe page. "...God have mercy on us, this isn't easy."

Husband of teacher killed in Texas school dies of "broken heart ... (East Idaho News)

“I truly believe Joe died of a broken heart and losing the love of his life of more than 25 years was too much to bear,” Irma Garcia's cousin Debra Austin wrote ...

I feel like actually pretty tough.’ He told me that being fragile had nothing to do with it, and that one woman had eight episodes without dying,” she said. “When we’re under stress, we want more blood to get to our heart and help the body respond, right?” Wittstein said. It was three years after her first episode, and this time she was in the middle of a heated argument with another attorney. “Now, I had retired and done all sorts of things to reduce stress in my life. And I thought to myself, I’m almost 70-years-old — is the next one gonna kill me?” “In fact, studies have shown that your risk for broken heart syndrome goes up fivefold after the age of 55 if you’re a woman.” “And then I know, ‘Oh my god, this isn’t anxiety or indigestion.’ This is really it.” But unlike a heart attack, which is typically caused by blocked arteries, these early patients had “pristine, normal coronary arteries,” with little or no evidence of cholesterol and plaque. So I thought ‘Oh man, this is it.’ But it turned out I didn’t have a heart attack or heart failure, I had broken heart syndrome.” “I did not have a tragic broken heart from a love story. “It was a total WHAT? moment,” she recalled. “When a person first comes in, the heart can look terribly weak.

What is Broken Heart Syndrome? (Audacy)

More tragedy for the family of a teacher killed in the Uvalde mass shooting. The husband of slain teacher Irma Garcia has died of a heart attack.

Death of Texas teacher's husband could be 'Broken Heart Syndrome' (fox4kc.com)

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The husband of one of the teachers killed in the Texas elementary school shooting passed away Thursday. Family say they believe Irma ...

Uvalde: Teacher's husband died of grief. Here's how that can happen (INSIDER)

After his wife was killed at Robb Elementary, Joe Garcia died of a medical emergency. Doctors say death from "broken heart syndrome" is rare but real.

"It appears to be a function of exposure to high levels of catecholamines (adrenaline and similar hormones) that can overstress the heart," he wrote. "It usually happens with 24 hours of a severe stressor, such as someone close to you dying," he added. Lloyd-Jones told Insider in a statement on Thursday that no one can know exactly how or why Joe died without reviewing his medical records. It can cause fatal complications if the heart can't keep up with blood flow and pressure builds. Joe "passed away due to grief," his nephew added on She and Joe had four children.

Husband of teacher killed in Texas school shooting dies of heart attack (The Guardian)

Joe Garcia, 48, died just two days after his wife, Irma Garcia, 46, a teacher at Uvalde's Robb elementary school, was killed.

The two youngest children, both daughters, are a high school sophomore and a seventh grader. Guadalupe “Joe” Garcia – the husband of 46-year-old Irma Garcia, who was shot and killed while sheltering children in her classroom – died two days after the mass killing that shattered his family, a cousin of his wife confirmed on a verified GoFundMe page. The death toll from the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers reached the campus’ extended family Thursday, when the husband of one of the slain teachers died of a heart attack.