There are different factors that influence people’s blood pressure, like diet, exercise and drugs.

A healthy person has heart rate between seventy and seventy-five beats per minute. The higher your heart rate is, the higher your blood pressure. Blood pressure is also influenced by the blood volume of the body. The more blood there is in your, body, the higher the rate of blood returns to the heart and the higher your blood pressure is. There is also a correlation between the amount of salt you consume and blood volume in your body, but the amount to which salt intake raises blood pressure varies.

Other very important factors that influence blood pressure are resistance and viscosity. Resistance relates to the size of blood vessels as well as the smoothness of these vessels. Some things affect the size of blood vessels, by making them thinner or thicker. For example fatty acids are responsible for the smoothness of blood vessels, because the more of them is deposited on the walls, the less resistance there is.

Viscosity is the thickness of the blood flowing through the body. The thicker the blood pumping through a body’s veins is, the higher the blood pressure. Some diseases affect the viscosity of blood, as well as the level of sugars in the blood.

Low blood pressure is influenced by such factors like sepsis, hemorrhaging, some toxins, and hormonal abnormalities. Even such every day activities like simply sitting and standing can lower your blood pressure, but usually the factors influencing low blood pressure are more serious.

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