Every year, tens of thousands of people are brought to hospital emergency departments across Singapore because they have become increasingly distressed by shortness of breath over the preceding hours or days.
There are many reasons that lead to this; some are serious and some less threatening. They include anxiety, asthma, a chest infection, respiratory diseases such as asthma or chronic obstructive airways disease and, most seriously, heart failure.
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