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Your heart rate naturally rises and falls throughout the day. Factors like caffeine intake, exercise, and stress levels can all affect your heart rate. But a heart rate that’s consistently too high or too low may indicate certain health issues. Ahead, doctors explain how to identify a dangerous heart rate vs. a normal one.
Your heart rate is the number of times your heart pump beats per minute to do its job, which is to circulate blood (to provide oxygen and nutrients) to the rest of the body, says Puja Mehta, M.D. , director of Women’s Translational Cardiovascular Research at the Emory Women’s Heart Center and member of the Women’s…
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