Question by Sally: WATER and BLOOD PRESSURE related?
if higher water concentration increases blood pressure, wouldn’t drinking lots of water be BAD??..i always thought drinking lots of water was good …
Some sites say:
Blood pressure is proportional to the amount of water in the circulatory system
If the water volume is low, blood pressure will be too low to push adequate amounts of blood through organs
If water volume is high this will cause high blood pressure, which can lead to hemorrhage and strokes
andd…:
“aldosterone stimulates cells in kidney to reabsorb Na ions, also causing WATER reabsorption and raises blood pressure”
can anyone help explain?
site sources please.
thank you
Best answer:
Answer by Sean
What website were you reading? Blood pressure is the measure of pressure of the blood in the closed circulatory system. The first number is the pressure when the heart beats and the second number is the constant pressure (and the more critical of the two numbers).
Water is important in the basic functioning of the human body and dehydration is deadly, as is over-hydration, but I don’t think under “normal” circumstances that water has much to do with blood pressure.
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