Chest pain is one of the symptoms of heart disease. The pain usually occurs on the left chest. It spreads to shoulders and neck. However, chest pain does not always mark the indication of heart disease. Chest pain can also be caused by pain due to lung or pleural abnormalities, pain and skeletal muscle tissue, pain upper gastrointestinal or psychogenic pain.
Chest pain in general is the feeling of pain or discomfort that interferes in the chest area. Often the pain is originating from organs within the chest cavity which is distributed through the nerves to the chest wall.
Chest pain in heart disease can be a pain coronary and non-coronary pain. Coronary pain caused by a lack of blood supply to the heart muscle, while non-coronary pain due to inflammation of the outer layer of the heart, aortic abnormalities, valve abnormalities, and others. For more convincing if chest pain is heart disease or other necessary checks electrocardiography (ECG), exercise treadmill test with the tool, and others.
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