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Just finished eating, blood pressure will be high?

Dr. Morgan King
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2025-05-22 13:23:16
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Blood pressure may rise immediately after a meal.
After a meal, the body needs to digest and absorb food. In order to complete this process, the digestive system increases blood flow and metabolic rate to meet the energy required for digestion, which causes blood to concentrate in the intestines and digestive organs and causes a brief increase in blood pressure. Usually, the peak of blood pressure rise after a meal occurs between 30 minutes and 2 hours after a meal, and then gradually returns to normal levels. For most people, this increase is not obvious and will decrease on its own within a few hours.