Cardiac discomfort generally affects sleep, cardiac discomfort is often considered to be related to physiological and pathological factors, physiological can be relieved after rest and adequate sleep; pathological common heart failure, angina pectoris, arrhythmia, may affect sleep, and insomnia may further lead to aggravation of the disease.
1. Physiological: healthy people due to emotional upset, nervousness and other cardiac discomfort such as chest tightness, panic and other manifestations, generally is not serious, may affect the quality of sleep, but after rest, adequate sleep can be relieved.
2. Pathologic:
(1) heart failure: especially patients with left heart failure are prone to pulmonary edema and pulmonary siltation, and when the volume of return blood increases when lying down to sleep, pulmonary edema will be more serious, and the burden on the heart will increase, which will lead to dyspnea, shortness of breath, coughing, and other symptoms, which will affect sleep.
(2) angina pectoris: angina pectoris patient in sleep vagus nerve essence, blood flow is slow, easy to promote thrombosis, triggering myocardial ischemia, the patient manifested as chest pain, chest tightness, will also affect sleep.
(3) Arrhythmia: Frequent premature beats, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia and other cardiac arrhythmias will cause patients to experience severe panic, chest tightness, and even a sense of near death, which often leads to insomnia, which may in turn affect the blood supply to the heart and lead to neurological dysfunction, which indirectly promotes the occurrence of arrhythmia.
If patients experience symptoms of cardiac discomfort such as chest tightness, chest pain and panic, it is recommended that they go to the hospital in time to have the cause clarified and then follow the doctor’s instructions for active treatment.