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To: ConservativeMind
If you have chronic pain, your blood pressure is going to go up.

Just the way it is.

3 posted on 02/07/2022 2:14:36 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I question the extent to which higher blood pressure BY ITSELF induces heart problems. Many with high blood pressure ALSO eat tons of garbage and don’t exercise. Blood pressure caused by plaque and calcification of arteries is one thing. Blood pressure as a result of chronic pain (or a larger heart, or some other cause) MAY not have any effect on heart problems. But since higher blood pressure for some causes IS harmful, that gets lumped in statistically with higher blood pressure from other reasons.

Seems very simplistic to argue as some do that systolic blood pressure of 130, for example, is too high.


4 posted on 02/07/2022 2:30:20 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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