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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
As blood flows to your privates, it increases in size and gets firm.Your privates stay firm, thanks to the tunica albuginea, which reduces the amount of blood that can flow out until you are no longer aroused.If something goes wonky with this process, sildenafil can help by dilating the arteries that allow blood to flow into your privates. This encourages more blood to flow into the area, so you get excited.When you have high blood pressure, your heart and blood vessels have to work harder to make blood flow through your body. This is pretty much the opposite of what sildenafil does — as a reminder, it relaxes certain blood vessels to allow blood to flow more easily.Jacob Wackerhausen/IstockphotoDoes Viagra Increase Blood Pressure?Does Viagra raise blood pressure? While Viagra may increase blood flow to the privates, it doesn’t raise blood pressure. In fact, some research suggests the opposite.One study found that there were slight decreases in blood pressure in men taking sildenafil. However, the researchers noted that the decrease in blood pressure was insignificant. It also concluded that sildenafil is generally safe for younger and older men with and without hypertension. (Learn more about Hypertension.)Jacob Wackerhausen/IstockphotoWhat Is The Connection Between Viagra and High Blood Pressure?Research has found that taking Viagra does not increase high blood pressure.Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, is actually used to treat a certain kind of high blood pressure in the lungs. Called Revatio (and also available as generic Revatio), this version of sildenafil is FDA
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