Broken Heart Syndrome - Repost (Original Air Date: 3/2022)

Its symptoms are like those of a heart attack. We’re talking about the vulnerable heart, on this week's Ageless Glamour Girls Podcast. February is National Heart Month, and we're revisiting a popular and very important episode: “Broken Heart Syndrome.”  It first aired in March of 2022 - our debut season.  Broken Heart Syndrome can happen when you experience sudden acute stress. And get this - a study published last year, suggests cases of the condition are increasing in middle-aged and older women. The good news is that it’s treatable. The study's senior author, Dr. Susan Cheng of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, joined us to discuss the findings and solutions.

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 GUEST: Dr. Susan Cheng
 BIO: Susan Cheng, MD, MMSc, MPH is the Erika J. Glazer Chair in Cardiovascular Health and Population Science, director of Cardiovascular Population Sciences, and director of Public Health Research in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Cheng is a cardiologist, echocardiographer, and clinician-scientist who leads research programs aimed at uncovering the drivers of cardiovascular aging in women and men. 

She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a medical degree from McMaster University, Master of Medical Science from MIT, and Master of Public Health from Harvard. Dr. Cheng completed Osler internal medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and cardiology training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she then served as cardiology faculty and associate director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Core Laboratory. She is co-director of the Framingham Heart Study Echocardiography Laboratory and co-director of the international Bioactive LipidsNet Consortium.

Dr. Cheng has served on the editorial boards of major cardiovascular and imaging journals as well as on leadership committees for the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology. She has chaired and contributed to the American Heart Association's scientific statements on research methods, heart disease statistics, and the cardiovascular care of older adults. Dr. Cheng has authored over 350 publications and her work has been recognized with multiple awards and supported by continuous NIH funding.

https://researchers.cedars-sinai.edu/Susan.Cheng