How will you explain the symptoms in heart disease with angina bt no dyspnea?

a diabetic patient, hypertensive, smoker, and obese. complaining for chest pain his symptoms fits CAD but he has no dyspnea. Form my research, angina and any other headrt disease presents dyspnea, but this one has none. can you please explain? thns so much

Not everyone with heart disease and angina will experience dyspnea or shortness of breath. It is just like people having a heart attack, some experience all the symptoms, while others only experience a few of the symptoms. Most websites and research papers say symtpoms that "CAN" occur, which does not mean that they "WILL" occur. Rarely angina can occur in the absence of coronary disease such as people with certain heart valve problems.

I suggest if you haven't already, to see a cardiologist. From your post I am unsure if you are trying to diagnose yourself regarding the CAD and angina. If you haven't seen a cardiologist, let them run tests and diagnose and they can lead you from there.

Best wishes to you.

Dyspnea is not required to diagnose CAD. The shortage of oxygen in CAD is localized to the heart by means of blood flow reduction to the heart muscle, not because the lungs can't exchange oxygen properly.

I had angina for almost a year. My angina was atypical and I had no dyspnea. Even though I have COPD (emphysema) and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. I had CABG in Oct. 2006

You can certainly have CAD without dyspnea.

Terry

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