What physically is happening when your blood pressure goes up?

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Are your blood vessels contracting? Your heart pumping harder? Faster? Is there more blood in you than normal???!

What physically is happening to increase the pressure in the pipes?

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You’re blood pressure is controlled by 3 things. (Heart rate+stroke volume) x systemic vascular resistance. So the answer is all 3 things can change your blood pressure. Heart rate and stroke volume have a smaller effect on your blood pressure and systemic vascular resistance plays the biggest roll.

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