Causes of breathlessness include:
Physiological dyspnoea: the normal breathlessness that accompanies exercise, the onset of which is dependent on the individual's fitness.
Cardiac disease:
Lung disease:
Other causes, e.g. psychogenic hyperventilation, altitude sickness, anaemia.
Breathlessness may also be considered in terms of acute causes and chronic causes - see linked items below.
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