Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

Holding it in usually creates stress and stress does things like raise your heart rate and raise your blood pressure and kind of tie the muscles up in knots. There has been some literature suggesting that being overly angry and trying to contain it, or sometimes just being overly angry, puts you at risk for cardiac problems.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.