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Breathing Problems |
Dyspnea; Shortness of Breath; Tachypnea |
In medicine, hyperventilation (or hyperpnea) is the state of breathing faster or deeper (hyper) than necessary, and thereby reducing the carbon dioxide concentration of the blood below normal. This causes various symptoms such as numbness or tingling in the hands, feet and lips, lightheadedness, dizziness, headache, chest pain, slurred speech and sometimes fainting. The related symptom tachypnea (or "tachypnoea") (Greek: "rapid breathing") is characterized by rapid breathing and is not ide ...
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Breathing Problems Organizations
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- American Association for Respiratory Care http://www.aarc.org/
- National Lung Health Education Program
- Alliance for Lung Cancer
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
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