Does high blood pressure slow your heart rate down?

Question

or does blood pressure have nothing to do with your heart rate?
Whats a healthy heart rate?

Answer 1

High blood pressure does not directly influence pulse. A normal pulse at rest is 50 to 90 although in the past (20 years ago) it was thought to be 60 to 100. Pulse drops to the 30s or 40s during sleep and increases to 90 with normal activity. With excercise in a person who is physically fit the pulse should not exceed 85% of 220 minus your age.

Answer 2

Like everything in the body, it depends. Chronically high blood pressure, especially one with a low pulse pressure (small number when you subtract the top and bottom number of the blood pressure, generally caused by stiffening of the arteries), will elevate the "afterload", or back-pressure on the heart. This will make the heart have to work harder to maintain a good output, and thus it will tend to beat faster when resting.

However, if you typically have low blood pressure with a transient increase, like when you get stressed out or receive low doses of epinephrine, it will trigger a reflex that will decrease the heart rate. This is via baroreceptors that are present in the arch of the aorta and in the carotid arteries.

It all has to do with how much blood is reaching your tissues. Ideally, the body wants this to remain the same, and changing your blood pressure or heart rate is the best means of doing it.

A healthy range for blood pressure is 100-120/60-80. Recently the American Heart Association has been lowering the standard for healthy blood pressure, and is calling anything over 130/90 as "prehypertensive" (hypertensive = high blood pressure). A normal resting heart range is 60-100. Most non-athletes tend to have a resting heart rate of 80-100.

Answer 3

Blood pressure fluctuates during the day depending on what you are doing. At rest it is low and will rise slightly or a lot depending on activity or stress, The problems arise when it stays classically high or low. The dizziness probably came from just sitting with low blood pressure. Next time get up and move when you feel dizzy You had 5 hours sleep d so that is not extreme wakefulness. For piete's sake take an antacid when you have heartburn and get your sleep

Answer 4

high BP speeds it up... the heart has to work harder.

highly conditioned athletes have a heart rate around 60 - BUT so do hypothyroid people...so low doesnt = better for non-athletes... good resting heart rate is 70-90...but you cant look at that alone when evaluating health.

when you take a beta blocker (to lower blood pressure) your heart rate slows because your heart doesnt have to work as hard to pump blood.

Answer 5

blood pressure will damage all organs arteries, and veins throughout the body if not treated. it doesn't slow the heart, but make you suseptible for stroke and other problems if left untreated. a healthy heart rate is about 72 bpm. a healthy pressure is 110/70 but that's in the middle. the range varies a bit lower to a bit higher.

Answer 6

Not unless you develop an A-V block