| Controlling high blood pressure reduces the | | | | due to drastically low blood pressure. |
| risk for heart attacks and death from other | | | | |
| cardiovascular disease. Extreme low blood | | | | The moment exercising ceases, blood pressure |
| pressure, however, can be hazardous-even | | | | drops drastically. This is because when |
| deadly. | | | | muscles stop contracting, there is no longer |
| | | | a pump to send blood back to the heart. The |
| Scientists add that although higher death | | | | heart responds by lowering cardiac output. |
| rates among those with low blood pressure may | | | | |
| be due to other causes, cardiac deaths were | | | | Also, blood flow in certain areas remains |
| particularly high in untreated patients with | | | | high due to the concentrations of metabolic |
| low diastolic blood pressure compared to | | | | byproducts in the bloodstream causing blood |
| patients with heart disease and low systolic | | | | vessels in the muscle to remain dilated. This |
| pressure. | | | | results in a drop in the heart's blood |
| | | | volume, as blood is caught in the blood |
| Research indicates that the death rate is | | | | vessels, which in turn lowers blood pressure. |
| higher among those with high diastolic blood | | | | |
| pressure and those with low diastolic blood | | | | As body temperature increases when an |
| pressure compared to those in the mid range. | | | | individual is exercising, the blood vessels |
| This was the case for treated patients as | | | | in the skin dilate to lose the extra heat. |
| well as untreated patients. High or low | | | | Again, this could also reduce blood volume in |
| systolic readings do not seem to have as much | | | | the heart, as enough blood is not present to |
| impact in relation to deaths due to | | | | be pumped into the heart. |
| cardiovascular diseases. | | | | |
| | | | That's why a cool-down routine is so |
| Intense exercise or cardiovascular exercise | | | | important after exercise. The cool-down |
| impacts the blood flow; pumping slows, which | | | | causes blood pressure to drop sufficiently |
| results in a dramatic drop in blood pressure. | | | | and the heart rate to return to normal. |
| The body then responds quickly by increasing | | | | Taking all this into account, it has been |
| heart rate and cardiac output to maintain | | | | proven that regular exercise will gradually |
| blood pressure at the level required so that | | | | lower resting blood pressure, especially in |
| the individual does not lose consciousness | | | | those with borderline or mild hypertension. |