What Causes Rapid Heart Beat?

Posted on Thu, 14 Jul 2016

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Question : High sitting blood pressure and heart rate.
I take Losartin-HCTZ 100-25 daily.
119-85 heart rate 107
114-96. 110
113-80. 110

What causes the higher heart rate? I have a desk job .

Answered by Dr. Ilir Sharka (23 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
I would recommend as follows:

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!

I passed carefully through your question and would explain that your blood pressure values are within the normal ranges, while heart rate is slightly elevated.

Coming to this point, I recommend consulting with your attending physician for a physical exam and performing some tests to investigate for the possible causes of high heart rate:

- a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound to examine your heart function and structure
- an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring to examine your heart rhythm trends for a prolonged time and exclude possible arrhythmia
- thyroid hormone levels for possible thyroid dysfunction
- complete blood count for anemia
- blood electrolytes for possible imbalance.

You should discuss with your doctor on the above issues.

Hope to have been helpful!

Kind regards,

Dr. Iliri

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar