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Why does increase in heart rate and breathing rate accompany exercise?

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Exercise: With increasing body work load and oxygen metabolic demands increasing, the heart rate will increase to increase the cardiac output and breathing rate will increase to make more oxygen available.

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Answered 9/9/2018

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