| A study from Johns Hopkins shows that people | | | | leg press with very heavy weights.People with |
| who develop very high blood pressure during | | | | normal resting blood pressures who develop |
| exercise are the ones most likely to develop | | | | very high blood pressure during exercise are |
| high blood pressure in later years (American | | | | the ones most likely to develop high blood |
| Journal of Hypertension, April 2004.) These | | | | pressure later on. If your blood pressure |
| people have arteries that do not expand as | | | | rises much above 200 during running, you are |
| much as normal arteries when blood is pumped | | | | at increased risk for developing high blood |
| to them.When your heart beats, it squeezes | | | | pressure.Ninety percent of Americans will |
| blood from inside its chambers to the large | | | | develop high blood pressure, which increases |
| arteries. This sudden bolus of blood causes | | | | risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney |
| normal arteries to expand like balloons do | | | | damage and sudden death. High blood pressure |
| when they fill with air. The walls of | | | | usually occurs in people who have normal |
| arteries have sensors that allow arteries to | | | | blood pressures when they were young. If you |
| expand with each pulse of blood. If the | | | | have an exaggerated blood pressure rise |
| arteries do not expand enough when blood | | | | during exercise, you should go on a heart |
| enters them, blood pressure can rise very | | | | attack prevention program that includes a |
| high. Blood pressure is determined by the | | | | diet that is high in plants and low in |
| force of the heart's contraction times the | | | | saturated fats and refined carbohydrates, |
| resistance in the blood vessels. Normal blood | | | | regular exercise, losing weight if you are |
| pressure is 120 when the heart contracts and | | | | overweight, not smoking, and avoiding |
| 80 when it relaxes. During exercise, the | | | | stimulants and drugs that raise blood |
| heart beats with increased force to raise | | | | pressure.Gabe Mirkin, M.D. |
| blood pressure. It is normal for blood | | | | |
| pressure to rise up to 200 over 80 during | | | | on high blood pressureDASH diet to control |
| running, and to 300 over 200 while doing a | | | | blood pressure. |