Increasing blood pressure and worsening atherosclerosis

[fergusthegreat]

Basic fluid dynamics states that if you have a fluid flowing through a pipe at a constant rate and reduce the pipe diameter the pressure within the pipe will increase.

Whilst I realise that there are a large number of factors that can effect blood pressure readings , if you take it regularly, at the same time and when you are relaxed can an increasing blood pressure over time indicate a worsening of your atherosclerosis as in an increase in plaque diameter leading to an increased narrowing of an artery and thus an increase in blood pressure?

[Prada47]

Hello

Not quite thermodynamics, but when a pipe (steel ) is quoted it is not flexible like an Artery it is of a fixed dimension so not strictly like for like !!!

Hope you manage to Track and Trace your person who was in Quarantine and looks possibly positive for Covid 19

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[fergusthegreat in reply to Prada47]

Thanks for the reply. They think the lady in question came into contact with an infected person in her last couple of days in managed isolation and was thus incubating the virus at the time of her last negative test result.Luckily she was very vigilant about using the covid tracker app but she visited 30 places in her time out of isolation so it's a big job for the contract tracers and testers but hopefully it will be OK.