If you have rapid heartbeat and difficulty breathing, be alert to this disease!

If you experience rapid heartbeat and difficulty breathing, you should be alert to the possibility of insufficient blood supply to the heart. Insufficient blood supply to the heart can lead to weakened heart function and symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, and palpitations. This is mostly caused by an unreasonable diet and lack of exercise.

1. Symptoms of insufficient blood supply to the heart

(1) When tired or mentally stressed, dull pain or tightening pain may occur behind the sternum or in front of the heart, radiating to the left shoulder and left upper arm. It may last for 3 to 5 minutes and then subside on its own after rest, and may be accompanied by profuse sweating.

(2) Those who experience chest tightness, palpitations, and shortness of breath during physical activity and relieve themselves during rest.

(3) Exercise-related sore throat, burning sensation, tightness, toothache, etc.

(4) People who experience chest pain or tightness after a full meal, exposure to cold, or drinking alcohol.

(5) People who feel chest tightness and shortness of breath when sleeping with a low pillow at night and need to lie with a high pillow to feel comfortable; people who suddenly experience chest pain, palpitations, and difficulty breathing when sleeping soundly or lying flat during the day and need to sit up or stand up immediately to relieve the pain.

(6) Palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath, or chest pain during sexual intercourse or straining to defecate.

(7) Sudden bradycardia, hypotension or syncope.

2. Causes of the disease

The common cause of myocardial ischemia is coronary atherosclerosis, followed by inflammation (rheumatic, syphilitic, Kawasaki disease and vascular occlusive vasculitis, etc.), spasm, embolism, connective tissue disease, trauma and congenital malformations. Epidemiological studies have found that important risk factors associated with atherosclerosis are hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, obesity, elevated homocysteine, lack of physical activity, advanced age, and male gender.