Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have found that patients with shortness of breath can have a higher risk of dying from cardiac disease than patients without symptoms, and even than patients with typical cardiac pain.
The sternum, commonly known as the breastbone, is a long, narrow flat bone that serves as the keystone of the rib cage and stabilizes the thoracic skeleton. Several muscles that move the arms, head, and neck have their origins on the sternum.
manubrium - the upper part of the breastbone. xiphoid process - smallest of the three parts of the breastbone; articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib. chest, pectus, thorax - the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.