50％患胸痛而被医师疑为心脏有问题的人,事实上是由于忧虑引起。尽管这些病人胸痛的表现似由心脏病引起,但是经医院检查证明心脏属正常范围。上述病人的许多症状是因过度呼吸引起,并非心脏病所致,与真正的心脏病可资鉴别,因为真正心脏病的病人常有喘息。由于家务或工作的紧张可引起过度呼吸,表现为忧虑、紧张也是真正心脏病中的一个因素,但对其重要性可能估计过高,因为紧张可 50% of people who have chest pain and are suspected to have heart problems by their physicians are actually caused by anxiety. Although chest pain in these patients appears to be caused by a heart attack, the hospital proved to have a normal heart. Many of these patients have symptoms that are caused by over-breathing, not heart disease, and are identifiable with true heart disease because patients with real heart disease often have a wheeze. Tension is also a real cause of heart disease due to over-breathing caused by housework or work stress, but its importance may be overestimated as stress may