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How does high blood pressure affect your heart?
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Requires both muscle: to work harder to drive blood forward & ↑es valve leaflet loads to block reverse blood flow. Heart muscle requires more blood flow for more work (more susceptible to damage of artery Ds), muscle gets thicker/stronger but also stiffer (no longer allows blood return from veins at low pressure) over time. Both lead to ↑ed heart attack rates, enlargement, congestive failure, atrial fibrillation, etc.
Answered 1/30/2015
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