Q: What relationship is there between BP and pulse rate. Where can I find examples?
A: Systolic pressure is the pressure in your arteries that occurs with the contraction of your heart. Diastolic pressure is the pressure in your arteries between heart beats. With each heart beat blood is forced through your arteries creating pulsations. The number of pulsations that occur in a minute is your pulse. As this reflects your heart rate, the terms are somewhat interchangeable. Blood pressure increases with activity but should remain within the normal range.
Further Reading:
Blood Pressure vs. Heart Rate – Heart.org
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I don’t think you answered the question. It has been one of mine as well as I track both pulse and blood pressure. I think the inquirer was asking about the relationship between pulse and BP; that is, if P increases, does or should BP increase correspondingly and vice verse? I cannot discern any firm relationship based on my personal data, but, as a general rule when P goes up should not BP go up to?
Here are some more things to know about the correlation between blood pressure and heart rate.
There is no good correlation between pulse rate and blood pressure.
Measuring pulse rate does not indicate high or low blood pressure. For people with high blood pressure, there’s no substitute for measuring blood pressure.
A rising heart rate does not cause your blood pressure to increase at the same rate.
Even though your heart is beating more times a minute, healthy blood vessels dilate (get larger) to allow more blood to flow through more easily. When you exercise, your heart speeds up so the blood can reach your muscles. It may be possible for your heart rate to double safely, while your blood pressure may respond by only increasing a modest amount.
Taking your pulse can measure your cardiovascular activity and oxygen consumption but it is not a substitute for measuring your blood pressure.
If you take your pulse (measuring your heart rate) before, during and after physical activity, you’ll notice your pulse will increase over the course of the exercise. The greater the intensity and the more energy the activity demands, the more your pulse will increase. When you stop exercising, your pulse does not immediately return to normal; it gradually returns to its resting level. The greater your fitness level, the sooner your pulse rate will return to normal. These numbers may be helpful to understand but they are not linked to your blood pressure. Learn about your target heart rate during physical activity and how to monitor it.
Yhanks for answering the question. Your response is right on the money as far as my knowledge and personal experience go.
The question has not been answered fully.
Part of the question was what happens to heart rate if the blood pressure increases.
In other words, if the BP is high does it cause a higher than normal heart rate?
I didn’t quite understand the answer, if it was answered.
What I’ve never understood is that beta blockers affect both blood pressure and pulse rate, so why does this happen if there is no relationship between blood pressure and pulse rare?
Although there is not a direct relationship between pulse rate and blood pressure, sometimes when your BP is lowered by medications or other causes, the pulse rate tends to increase and this is a reflex, a sort of compensatory reaction of the heart trying to maintain an adequate blood output. But this is normally only an initial response and once the pressure is stabilized at the new level it usually returns to the normal parameters.
can a pulse rate at 47-52, be normal, for a man of 59?
I don’t believe you answered the question either. What is it with this woman why are you so so evasive
Do you actually see patients of your own and give them this kind of evasiveness?????
I too have to question your half-ass answers here that I’ve noticed to quite a few simply worded questions…I beleive we want to know where is the danger area if pulse getrs high , yet blood pressure is fine ..or even vice-versa….Its that correlation would like answered…by the way the bets blocker question was a perfect example…if i continue to see such primitive responses here….think I may ever question your RESPERATE machine’s ability there…
I might have it wrong but I think this is the question and it is something I wonder because it happens with me.
my pulse will be normal and I have high blood pressure, IE 150/100 and 69 pulse.
my pulse will be high and I will have normal blood pressure, IE 125/75 and 90 pulse.
1. Is this normal?
2. Is this a sign of a heart or other problem?
3. What causes this?
Thanks.
I have found from personal experience that there is no correlation with me. I do notice that after a year of regular cardio exercise my resting pulse has gone down quite a bit-from around 80 to around 65. This still varies quite a bit of course, depending on activity vs sitting or resting, but has absolutely no correlation to Bp whatsoever, at least for me.
As Emiliano Estrada mentioned, my obsorvation over MANY years is that there MAY be a slight BP elevation with a large increase of PULSE RATE, BUT the body VERY QUICKLY recognizes that and drops the BP as I assume a compensatory response. I have never noticed a direct correlation between STABILIZED BP and pulse rate.