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.
The sternum is made up of three parts, Manubrium, Body of sternum and Xiphoid process. Sternum pain may be due to various reasons, they are as follows: 1  Trauma on the chest wall may cause inflammation of the cartilage joining the ribs and sternum, this is also called costochondritis.