Question regarding having high blood pressure?

A question about clogged arteries and blood pressure?

  • I am hoping a few cardiac doctors answer questions on here. I am told that blood pressure can be high for numerous reasons other than clogged arteries from another question I asked, but I am wondering if it is possible to have clogged arteries and not see an increase in blood pressure. My wife works in a hospital and says she has never seen anyone with clogged arteries that had normal blood pressure. I am just wondering if it is pretty rare for someone to have clogged arteries and normal blood pressure(Under 120/80).

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    I can answer it from a hydraulics engineering standpoint as it is in fact a hydraulic problem. A certain amount of fluid (blood) needs to get through a certain diameter pipe (artery). The amount of fluid that can go through a given diameter pipe depends on the pressure. If the pipe is smaller then the pressure must go up in order to deliver the same amount of fluid through the constant diameter pipe. As such if you have clogged arteries then it is a must that the pressure goes up in order to deliver the required amount of blood through a clogged (smaller diameter) artery. Problem is that as the pressure goes up then blood vessels could burst. Hydraulic systems have a pressure relief valve to limit the pressure - our hydraulic system does not have such a feature.

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Both have insufficient water intake as their underlying cause, although the mechanics of each are different. High blood pressure involves two "oceans" of water - one is a fresh water ocean located inside the cells. The other is a salt/water mix located outside the cells. The blood is also a water/salt mix. When you become dehydrated, a drought management system kicks in, triggering a "reverse osmosis" process. Reverse osmosis is used by many ocean side communities to obtain fresh water from ocean water. It does this by forcing salt water under pressure through microscopic holes in a membrane that trap the salt particles but allow the fresh water to get through. The same thing happens in the body. Good health depends on a critical balance between the two "oceans" of water. When this balance is thrown off because of insufficient water intake, the reverse osmosis process will kick in to borrow water from the blood and outside the cells, filtering it and injecting it into the cells. This injection process requires an increase in pressure that is reflected in the blood pressure readings. Cholesterol forms as a result of damage done to the artery linings by acidic blood. Dehydration turns the blood acidic. As this acidic blood is pumped through the arteries under a high pressure, damage in the form of tiny cuts and abrasions are produced in the lining. This damage could potentially peel off and cause fatal embolisms (clots) in another organ such as the brain, lungs, etc. To prevent this damage from peeling, cholesterol develops to cover and protect the damage like a waterproof bandage until it can heal. Thus, cholesterol is actually a life saving substance. Medical professionals of today do not understand the vital roles of water in the human body. Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative disease of the human body. The current practice of clinical medicine is based on the application of pharmacological chemistry to the human body. At the medical school, more than six hundred teaching hours are allocated to the use of pharmaceutical products. Only a few hours are allocated to instructions on diet and nutrition. Everyone knows that water is good for the body. They seem not to know how essential it is to one's well-being. They do not know what happens to the body if it does not receive its daily need of water. Thus, the dehydration is overlooked and not treated, and so the damage to the arteries by the acidic blood continues to trigger the formation of additional cholesterol until it becomes a problem in itself.

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