Samuel Asanteabout 5 years ago
Hello, please how can overweight predispose people to experience shortness of breath... ?
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about 5 years ago
We need to remember that air enter to our lung due to differeces of pressure between toracic cavity and exterior medio, if a person have excess of adipose tissue this gona make hard the toracic expantion, so less air gona enter to body making de breath shortness (dysnea is the correct term)
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