Citation

Rich-Edwards JW, McCaw BR, Lewis-O'Connor A. Am. J. Med. 2015; 128(4): e9.

Affiliation

Center for Women and Newborns, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.10.051

PMID

25812646

Abstract

In the August 2014 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, Pelliccia et al discuss Takotsubo syndrome, or stress cardiomyopathy, a condition triggered by acute stress that affects almost exclusively women. While the authors claim that the stressful “triggers have been identified,” their list of triggers omits a potentially important and prevalent stressor in women's lives that merits closer attention: intimate partner violence.

Language: en