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What Is The Cause Of Skipped Heart Beat?

Hey Doc, Every so often when I take a deep breath, it feels like my heart pauses/skips a beat. what can it be? im a very healthy male, work out a lot, dont smoke , hardly drink.. I ve looked up some terms and PVC seems to describe my symptoms.. I have had an ECG done, Stress test, etc.. The doctors said I have nothing to worry about.. I have been having some axiety lately.
posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2014
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Going through your history and investigations viz.ECG and stress test,it is quite evident that you don't have any serious heart problem.PVC should be picked up on ECG.In absence of any such evidence don't worry about it.As such there is respiratory variation in heart rate,it increases in inspiration and decrease in expiration, so many a times if you are anxious and take deep breath ,you feel this variation and create undue worry.just relax and maintain healthy life style avoid smoking,tobacco ,coffee if you are overusing!
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What Is The Cause Of Skipped Heart Beat?

Going through your history and investigations viz.ECG and stress test,it is quite evident that you don t have any serious heart problem.PVC should be picked up on ECG.In absence of any such evidence don t worry about it.As such there is respiratory variation in heart rate,it increases in inspiration and decrease in expiration, so many a times if you are anxious and take deep breath ,you feel this variation and create undue worry.just relax and maintain healthy life style avoid smoking,tobacco ,coffee if you are overusing!