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hyperventilation

In medicine, an abnormally rapid resting respiratory rate. It occurs in patients with chest and heart diseases, such as severe chronic obstructive lung disease, because of a lack of oxygen or an increase in carbon dioxide in the blood.



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Some of these medical conditions are hypoglycemia, complex partial seizures, and heart arrhythmia and hyperventilation syndrome.
Hyperventilation syndrome is more specific and relates to an overbreathing pattern that Hyperventilation Syndrome is not an uncommon disorder.
Senior lecturer in cardio-respiratory physiotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, David Nichols, discussed the high prevalence of hyperventilation syndrome and breathing pattern disorder (BPD).
 
 
 
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