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How are ones pulse-rate/heart-beat and blood pressure connected?
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Sympathetic nerves: The body has two automatic nervous systems, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic responds to fight, flight or fright, or just plain exercise by increasing blood pressure, pulse rate, and strength of contraction of heart muscle. The parasympathetic does the opposite, especially during rest, sleep, or eating.
Answered 6/20/2015
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