There’s a pretty good chance that you have high blood pressure (HBP) too, if you have Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) as the two conditions often go together. Your ticker chugs along with a steady rhythm you can keep time to when everything’s going right. The ticker pumps oxygenated blood through your body with just the right touch, and all your cells get the oxygen required by them. But HBP can wreak havoc into these works. High blood pressure means your blood’s flowing with more force than normal, so it’s pushing hard on your artery walls. If this goes on for a long time, the added stress causes damage that can lead to all kinds of problems with one of them being Atrial Fibrillation, where your ticker’s regular rhythm gets thrown off. The upper two chambers of your heart- the atria- quiver instead of pump, so your ticker doesn’t work as well to push blood out to your body. High blood pressure is the major cause of AFib, and your odds of having both conditions go up as you get older. The