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When high blood pressure causes the heart muscle to thicken, there is less space for the oxygen-rich blood to flow from the lungs into the chamber or ventricle that pumps it to the rest of the body. This can cause blood to back up into the lungs, causing shortness of breath.
High blood pressure can affect your health in four main ways: 1  Hardening of the arteries. 2  Pressure inside your arteries can cause the muscles that line the walls of the arteries to thicken, thus narrowing the passage. 3  A heart attack or stroke can occur if a blood clot blocks blood flow to your heart or brain. Enlarged heart. 2  High blood pressure increases the amount of work for your heart. 3  Like any heavily exercised muscle in your body, your heart grows bigger (enlarges) to handle the extra workload. 4  The bigger your heart is, the more it demands oxygen-rich blood but the less able it is to maintain proper blood flow.