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Well, one reason may be b/c as the area of heart muscle goes w/o oxygen, that decreases the hearts ability to meet the body's needs for oxygen, so the lungs are stimulated to increase rate and depth of respiration to compensate, in attempt to get more oxygen to the damaged area. This is probably stimulated by the release of lactic acid from the injured mycardial tissue ???
Or, could be that they are in congestive heart failure as well??
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Hi everyone, it as been a long time since i last posted. Have been very busy. Can anyone give me any info on why people who have heart disease and diabetes and who suffer an MI might not get chest pain but only shortness of breath would be grateful of any feed back
Thanks:confused: