Low pulse rate

Posted By Andrew on July 28, 1999 at 12:51:42
I am a 46 yr old male, 195lbs who plays badminton once a week but likes food and drink a little too much for my own good. My doctor recently picked up the fact that I am running a high blood pressure. He's lent me an electronic monitor for checking at home, which is dead easy to use and has allowed me to build up a picture of average readings. I check it last thing at night and first thing in the morning. The average I would say is around 143/85. He's put me on Coversyl 2.
One thing the monitoring has highlighted is that I have a pretty low pulse rate during the tests - between say 45 to 55.
My question is this - (Looking at this from my engineering trained eye)Does the lower pulse rate have an efect on pressure? It seems to me that if the heart is pulsing less frequently, it'll need to pump harder and stronger to get the same quantity of blood around the pipes, so to speak. If so does this effect the heart muscle long term? Is the low rate maybe a symptom of the high pressure.
I've been reading up on the net since my visit to the docs and can see where I've been going wrong lifestyle wise, but would like to know if there an effect from the low pulse rate.










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