10 High Blood Pressure Symptoms
Symptom #7: Chest Pain
If you experience recurrent chest pain or pressure, you probably have high blood pressure. The chest pain may be accompanied by difficulty in breathing and an irregular heartbeat. This occurs because your heart must work extra hard to pump blood through less flexible arteries.
Chest pain or pressure is more likely to occur if either the pulmonary arteries which transport blood to the lungs, or the coronary artery that supplies blood to the heart muscles, are affected. In case of pulmonary blood pressure, the heart must work extra hard to pump blood through the lungs, while in the case of coronary artery disease, the heart is strained by a lack of adequate oxygen and nutrients.
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