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What Causes Variations In Heart Rates After Step Ups?
For human biology i'm doing an investigation of cardiovascular health in teenagers. We got 2 active and 2 inactive teenagers to do 10 step ups and we recorded their heart rate after. Both active teenagers had a much lower resting heart rate but had a much higher increase in their heart rate after the step ups than the inactive teens. Any explanations
Sat, 18 Aug 2018
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It is the physiological phenomenon with the exertion the oxygen demands increases in the body tissue needs more oxygen and blood is the component which supplies the oxygen to the tissue and blood pump by heart so increasing the heart rate is obvious and it is not the disease condition.
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I have reviewed your query and here is my advice
It is the physiological phenomenon with the exertion the oxygen demands increases in the body tissue needs more oxygen and blood is the component which supplies the oxygen to the tissue and blood pump by heart so increasing the heart rate is obvious and it is not the disease condition.
Hope I answered your query, let me know for further assistance.
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