Number | Patients | Age | Marital status | Heart surgery | Breast surgery | Traumatic life events |
1 | Lena | 60 | Divorced | x | x | Divorce; death of a 2nd boyfriend; abandonment of a 3rd boyfriend |
2 | 58 | Married |
| x | Death of a son age 21 | |
3 | Fatima | 49 | Married | x |
| Death of a sister age 5 |
4 | Sofia | 68 | Married |
| x | Hard work from a young age |
5 | Cristal | 36 | Single |
| x | Father left home when she was 4 |
6 | Marina | 74 | Widow | Takotsubo |
| Death of a husband |
7 | Vivian | 42 | Divorced | x |
| Divorce; death of a father when she was 14 |