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Why does my diastolic blood pressure double while walking?
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Unlikely: How did you measure your blood pressure while walking? What happened to systolic pressure? Doubling diastolic pressure would have raised it above a usual systolic pressure, an untenable situation!
Answered 7/28/2012
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