What would cause high blood pressure with low body temperature?

Answer 1

hypertension simply means force with which your heart have to push blood into the blood vessels against resistance . body temperature depends on your higher brain functions and some basic physiological structures e.g sweat glands , cutaneous blood flow , vasodilation or constriction etc

Answer 2

I do not think this question can be addressed without specifying the measurements. How high blood pressure? How low body temperature? Question is too generic and broad.

Attempt to answer the generic question: Low body temperature itself causes high blood pressure. Anyone can check core temperature and blood pressure before and after a hot bath or a sauna and note an immediate return to normal and sub normal values even from hypertension after the core heating.

It is well known that normal body response to colder than normal core temperature is constricted arteries (to prevent further cooling) and the response to higher core temperatures is the opposite, cooling by blood vessel expansion allowing more (core-warm) blood to extremities.

"High" blood pressure drops quickly to normal and subnormal when core temperature reaches and exceeds 37 C. But this is of course not the way to treat high blood pressure, but it tells us what can sort the problem: 1/ Keep warm. Check core temperature in the day. Should be over 37 C.

2/- Address the cause: Thyroid problems is often the cause of low core temperatures, which can be caused by low Iodine. Iodine can be one avenue to solve a/ low core temperature, b/ high blood pressure and also c/ cold hands and/or feet.

Raynaud's syndrome is cold hands and feet gone to extreme, or maybe very strong reflexes combined with low core temperature. Many researchers feel that there is a widespread "sub clinical" deficiency in Iodine. If this link to high blood pressure is correct, the deficiency could be called "clinical" and treated.

Other ways to correct low core temperature, please!

Answer 3

Not at all.