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Is there any relationship between blood pressure and pulse/heart rate?

April 26, 2017blood pressure Conditions diseases Health heart pulse rate relationship

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Is there any relationship between blood pressure and pulse/heart rate?

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There is a reflex relationship between blood pressure and heart rate. There is a sensor in the carotid artery (blood vessel supplying oxygenated blood to the brain) which responds to increased blood pressure by sending signals to slow the heart rate.