Reading - Part 1

Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is somewhere in the rest of the text.

Broken Heart Syndrome

Scientists say it isn't just sad things that make us broken-hearted. Happy events can also be bad for our heart. A broken (1) is a real illness. This (2) is not just the sadness we feel. We get broken heart syndrome when we are stressed when something (3) happens, such as a relationship breakup, the death of family and friends, or the loss of a job. But people can get it even when very happy things happen. The doctors who discovered this have called it (4) heart syndrome. The European Heart Journal published a study. This (5) analyses data from 1,750 patients. These (6) are from nine different countries. Researchers say our brain may think happy and sad events are similar, so both can result in heart problems.