Tightness of breath and chest tightness may be caused by physiological factors, heart disease, lung disease or psychological disease.
1. Physiological factors: tightness of the chest may be physiological factors, such as a long time to stay in an air-circulation environment, or usually in the occurrence of some unpleasant situations, or low air pressure can lead to transient chest tightness shortness of breath.
If it is because of this situation caused by chest tightness and shortness of breath, then there is no need to worry too much, generally after rest, deep breathing, relaxation and so on can be relieved.
2. Heart disease: heart disease causes tightness and chest tightness mainly seen in a variety of heart disease caused by cardiac insufficiency, such as coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy and so on.
3. Lung diseases: lung diseases can cause tightness and chest tightness through lung inflammation and airway narrowing, mainly seen in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, pleurisy and so on.
4. Psychological diseases: some psychological diseases such as anxiety, depression, etc. may also cause tightness and chest tightness.
There are also other causes of tightness, such as anemia, pleural effusion, etc. If the above symptoms occur frequently or persistently, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital for electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, blood pressure measurement, laboratory tests, chest X-ray test, etc., to further clarify the condition.