Isabelle
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So it's a combination of hi blood pressure and irregular heartbeat? The heart basically spasms and stops? When I was much younger we used to swim the length of a 100 m pool underwater without fins. I have no idea what my bp was but heart rate was over 200 I think. Is this similar stress without irregular beat?
A rapid heartbeat would be the only similarity. Swimming wouldn't cause a blood pressure spike, nor would it cause your coronary arteries to spasm, unless you had other problems. If you did and had these problems you probably wouldn't live to talk about it.
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