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Heart rate refers to the number of heart beats per minute in a normal person’s resting state, also known as resting heart rate, generally 60 to 100 beats per minute. However, each person’s heart rate is related to age, gender, occupation, and physical health. Generally speaking, the younger the age, the faster the heart rate. The heart rate of the elderly is slower than that of the young, and the heart rate of women is faster than that of men at the same age.

Heart rate can reflect some health information and heart health status of the human body. such as：

1. The heart rate is too fast

An adult resting heart rate over 100 beats per minute is called sinus tachycardia. For example, after our body is excited, smoking, drinking, and drinking coffee, it is very likely that the heart rate will be too fast. There are some common diseases that can cause the heart rate to increase, such as fever, shock, hyperthyroidism, heart failure, myocardial infarction, etc., or after taking certain drugs.

2, slow heart rate

An adult resting heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute is called sinus bradycardia. This situation generally occurs in healthy people and athletes who have been engaged in physical labor for a long time. If they do not belong to these occupations and experience bradycardia, it is necessary to consider whether to take certain drugs or develop certain diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, meninges brain diseases such as inflammation, or diseases such as peptic ulcers, intestinal infarction, gallstones, and even malnutrition, infectious diseases and other diseases may cause bradycardia.

If the heart rate is lower than 40 beats/min, it may lead to insufficient blood oxygen supply, causing the body to experience fatigue, dizziness, and difficulty breathing.

In addition, the blood pressure value of the human body can be calculated through the heart rate data, and the heart rate variability (HRV) of the human body can also be analyzed and calculated. This indicator is essentially the change of the heart rate over time. Through HRV, we can Know your level of fatigue, sleep quality, and even how long it takes to recover from exercise.

Because heart rate variability and heart disease are closely related, heart rate is the most direct indicator of our heart health. The heart is the driving force for blood pumping, and it is also the guarantee for the normal operation of various organ systems and the entire body. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, the mortality rate of cardiovascular disease remains high and shows a younger trend. Many people often have insufficient understanding of heart disease, thinking that only sudden death and stroke are sudden diseases, so they always choose to seek medical advice when they cannot bear it. After arriving at the hospital, some patients experienced registration, queuing, waiting, and finally when they arrived at the ECG examination, the heart that was originally uncomfortable suddenly became obedient, and the ECG results were not abnormal, it can also easily lead doctors to make “wrong” medical diagnoses. Therefore, whether it is for office workers or middle-aged and elderly people, real-time monitoring of heart rate is very necessary. Through continuous and accurate heart rate monitoring and analysis, abnormal data of cardiac activity can be detected in time, and precious treatment time can be obtained for patients.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can continuously monitor for a long time, monitor heart rate and breathing rate, and automatically generate sleep reports and analysis.

Wrong eating habits and living habits continue to increase the incidence of the three highs, and more people are found to have high blood pressure. Not only are older people diagnosed with high blood pressure, but some young people also have unstable blood pressure. After high blood pressure occurs, everyone pays more attention to their blood pressure and learns relevant information. Some people say that when measuring blood pressure, the doctor always asks what is the heart rate? It makes people question, is there a connection between blood pressure and heart rate? When adjusting blood pressure, should we pay attention to changes in heart rate?

The basic signs of a person are inseparable from blood pressure, respiration and pulse. When the blood pressure is high, the heart rate will change to a certain extent. When there is a big change, you must be careful about cardiovascular problems. Just in case, still have to pay attention. It can also judge the physical condition in more detail, which will also be helpful for future conditioning work.

As for the relationship between blood pressure and heart rate, it cannot be said that there is no, but it is not a direct effect. Our heart rate will be affected by emotions. Excessive emotions will lead to a faster heart rate, and blood pressure may rise at this time. However, the impact of emotions is only short-lived. For healthy people, they can recover quickly, may return to normal within a few minutes. However, for people with high blood pressure, their emotions should not be too extreme. If the heart rate is too fast for a moment, it may cause blood pressure fluctuations and damage related organs. It is best to attract attention to avoid unnecessary damage.

Plus1Health has a free heart rate app “Heart Rate“, which can be used to measure anything at ordinary times:

Heart Rate Monitor-Plus1Health on the App Store (apple.com).

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To ensure the body’s nutritional balance, reduce the occurrence of anemia. For people with anemia, the blood supply will be affected, and the oxygen will be insufficient. If the heart does not have sufficient blood and oxygen supply, it will affect the heartbeat, and the speed of the heartbeat and breathing will become chaotic, which will disturb people’s health.Bad emotions, will also make the heart rate faster. If you do not want to develop anemia, it is recommended to have a reasonable daily diet, ensure a balanced nutritional intake, and eat less unhealthy food.

Good sleep should also be ensured. Having a good sleep is good for blood circulation and metabolism of the body, and it can also give the body a good rest. If you stay up late for a long time and lack of sleep, it will affect the normal operation of the body, stimulate the nerves, and affect the heart rate. It is still necessary to develop good sleep habits at ordinary times, and avoid all things and food that disturb sleep in time.

Appropriately increasing physical activity will also be good for stabilizing heart rate. But one thing to remind is, don’t have too strenuous exercise, aerobic exercise is very good. When doing aerobic exercise, don’t make mistakes, don’t think that the more the better, too much will cause the heart rate to be too fast, which is also very bad for regulating blood pressure. To suit your own situation, to exercise. Suitable projects include walking and jogging.

The incidence of coronary heart disease is increasing year by year, and the risk of complications such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and heart failure is higher. Coronary heart disease is caused by myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis caused by lumen stenosis or occlusion caused by coronary atherosclerosis, and changes in heart rate also affect the severity of myocardial ischemia. Therefore, it is particularly important to control heart rate in patients with coronary heart disease.

Coronary heart disease is mainly coronary artery stenosis, the imbalance of cardiac blood supply and demand caused by insufficient myocardial blood supply, and then angina pectoris and even myocardial infarction. However, the faster the heart rate, the more oxygen is consumed. Angina pectoris, or myocardial infarction, occurs when the heart consumes more oxygen than the blood supply to the blood vessels. Therefore, for patients with coronary heart disease, it is necessary to ensure an appropriately low heart rate. For patients with coronary heart disease, whether receiving coronary stents or conservative drug treatment, it is necessary to pay attention to keeping the heart rate up to standard.

Studies have shown that when the resting heart rate is too high, it is not good for human health, and it will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and death. In order to reduce the frequency of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction, it is best to control the resting heart rate at 55-60 beats/min. For patients with severe angina pectoris, if no symptoms of bradycardia (such as dizziness, shortness of breath, etc.), the heart rate can also be further reduced to 50 beats/min, but below this value may cause peripheral blood pressure to drop due to insufficient cardiac output, which is prone to ischemic events for the elderly, so the heart rate should not be less than 50 times/min.

The faster the heart rate, the higher the heart rate, the easier it is to aggravate the insufficiency of blood supply. People with coronary heart disease or people with cardiovascular infarction should monitor their heart rate regularly long-term harm. Once the heart rate is too high or too low, you need to seek medical attention immediately.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can continuously monitor for a long time, monitor heart rate and breathing rate, and automatically generate sleep reports and analysis.

In clinical situations, cardiac function is mainly represented by cardiac output, and this variable has two determinants, heart rate and cardiac output. The increase or maintenance of cardiac output is determined by a change in one or both of these two variables.

In the case of reduced new functions, these mechanisms are activated through some neural and humoral pathways to maintain adequate perfusion pressure in peripheral organs, especially the brain and kidney. Therefore, patients with heart failure often present with compensatory tachycardia, which can ensure adequate cardiac output when the cardiac function is still compensated, but the blood output per stroke is also reduced due to reduced venous return. Tachycardia cannot compensate for cardiac function indefinitely, and may even lead to worsening of heart failure, manifested as decreased systolic or diastolic function, mainly due to increased myocardial oxygen consumption and decreased myocardial perfusion during diastole and diastole. The tachycardia itself can also lead to myocardial damage, thereby exacerbating the worsening of heart failure.

Heart failure is the terminal stage of various cardiovascular diseases, and an increased heart rate is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. It has been reported that if the heart rate does not increase by 5 beats/min, the periarterial poplar sclerosis score will increase by 0.21, and the stenotic heart rate will increase by 0.21. The progression score increased by 0.27. The association of resting heart rate with periarterial poplar sclerosis was independent of other major risk factors and manifested in the general population, the elderly, hypertensive populations, myocardial infarction, or patients with heart failure. Individuals with increased heart rate tend to aggregate other risk factors, so individuals with increased heart rate are susceptible to cardiovascular disease.

Heart rate is a plausible therapeutic target for heart failure. Reducing the heart rate can improve the force-frequency relationship and increase myocardial contractility; slowing the heart rate can prolong the diastolic period, contributing to the increase of myocardial perfusion and the output per stroke; it can also increase the coronary perfusion time and reduce the oxygen demand of the myocardium. These all contribute to the improvement of cardiac function in patients with heart failure. Beta-blocker therapy reduces mortality by 35% and corresponds to a reduction in the patient’s heart rate of 10-15 beats per minute. A study of carvedilol in the treatment of heart failure showed that patients with a baseline heart rate >82 beats per minute had the most significant reduction in mortality, regardless of the etiology of heart failure. The association of slow or decreased heart rate with a reduction in clinical events was not limited to beta-blocker therapy. The GESICA study of low-dose amiodarone in patients with severe heart failure resulted in a 28% reduction in all-cause mortality at 2 years. In the treatment group, the subsidized baseline resting heart rate fatality rate was similar, showing that the faster the starting resting heart rate, the better the patient’s survival rate, the greater the benefit.

For patients with heart failure, the principle of coupled heart rate control is to try to reduce the heart rate to the slowest heart rate that can be tolerated. The resting heart rate of patients with sinus rhythm is not less than 55 beats/min, and the resting heart rate of patients with atrial fibrillation is not less than 80 beats/min, heart rate does not exceed 110 beats /min after activity.

Elderly patients with heart failure often have atrioventricular block. When giving beta-blockers, digitalis and other treatments to control heart rate and improve new functions, more attention should be paid to monitoring heart rate to avoid serious bradycardia and even cardiac stop.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can continuously monitor for a long time, monitor heart rate and breathing rate, and automatically generate sleep reports and analysis.

There is also a free heart rate app “Heart Rate“:

Heart Rate Monitor-Plus1Health on the App Store (apple.com).

When discharged from the hospital, many cardiac surgery patients will be discharged with medication. Doctors will tell some patients that they should pay attention to monitoring blood pressure and heart rate at home. Among them, many patients do not understand, and some patients find it troublesome and do not cooperate. Why monitor blood pressure and heart rate after discharge?

First of all, many patients after heart surgery have not fully recovered heart function and will need long-term medication after discharge. For example, in many valve disease operations, the heart is significantly enlarged before the operation, and the heart function is poor. In addition to the surgical blow, the postoperative heart function is still at a relatively low level. Doctors use a variety of drugs, including cardiotonic, diuretic, and drugs that inhibit myocardial remodeling. Some of these drugs, such as enalapril and irbesartan, are blood pressure lowering drugs that lower blood pressure. Because the initial dose is too small, the antihypertensive effect of most patients is not obvious. However, some patients will be more sensitive and their blood pressure will drop a lot. Seriously, it will affect the blood supply of important organs such as the brain and kidneys. Some patients experience dizziness, severe renal hypoperfusion, and even renal impairment.

Some patients will use digoxin, metoprolol, amiodarone and other drugs after discharge. These drugs lower the heart rate. Generally less than 70 beats/min, use it with caution to prevent bradycardia. If you don’t monitor your heart rate and keep eating and eating, it will cause bradycardia; if it continues, it will lead to serious consequences. There was once a patient who recovered well after cardiac surgery. After the operation, the family members had been taking digoxin without monitoring, which resulted in serious consequences of third-degree atrioventricular block.

In addition, many drugs are started in small doses in the treatment regimen. However, it needs to be gradually increased and adjusted to the maximum tolerated dose to have the best therapeutic effect. If there is no blood pressure and heart rate monitoring data, doctors cannot make adjustments on time, which will significantly affect the therapeutic effect of the drug. Some patients will ask, is it okay to measure blood pressure and heart rate once when they go to the outpatient clinic for reexamination? The answer is: no. Because in the outpatient clinic, a blood pressure measurement is impossible to represent the blood pressure level during the medication period. Moreover, the occasional measurement in the outpatient clinic is often too high and has little value.

Therefore, it is best for patients to follow the doctor’s orders, measure their blood pressure and heart rate at home, record them in time, and give feedback to the doctor in time, which can help the doctor adjust the drug treatment plan and achieve the best therapeutic effect.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can continuously monitor for a long time, monitor heart rate and breathing rate, and automatically generate sleep reports and analysis.

There is also a free heart rate app “Heart Rate“:

Heart Rate Monitor-Plus1Health on the App Store (apple.com).