What has a bigger impact on your health: a one-point reduction in blood pressure or a four-beat-per-minute increase in heart rate?
--- Does it mean a heart rate four times faster?
Hardly! g. from 80 beats per minute to 84.
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Hardly! It means that your heart rate increases by four beats per minute, e.g. from 80 beats per minute to 84.