Depending on the age of the person, the heart rate may vary. In newborn children, the heart beats 125-140 times per minute, by the age of 5-7 this figure decreases and amounts to 90 beats per minute. In adults who do not suffer from cardiopathology and are in a calm state, the heart rate varies between 60-90 beats per minute.
Athletes have a heart rate of 40-60 beats per minute. For them, this is normal. When a person ages, the heart rate rises slightly again (up to 90-100 beats per minute).
Causes of palpitations
Normally, at rest, a person should not feel how his heart beats. An increase in heart rate above 100 beats per minute is called tachycardia.
If a person is healthy, then the causes of its occurrence may be as follows:
Stressful situations in which a person begins to worry a lot.
Intense physical activity.
Low oxygen content in the inhaled air.
High body temperature. Its increase even by 1 degree leads to the fact that the heart begins to beat faster.
All of these factors are not indicators of heart disease. The increase in its rhythm in this case is regarded as a physiological phenomenon.
Disturbances in the hormonal background can provoke an increase in heart rate. This is true for women during menopause.
Sometimes the cause of increased heart rate is food allergies, eating a significant amount of food, drinking drinks with high levels of caffeine.
Increased heart rate caused by non-pathogenic causes is not accompanied by symptoms such as:
Blood pressure does not rise.
The heart doesn’t hurt. There is no discomfort in the chest.
A person does not feel dizzy, his eyes do not darken.
The person does not lose consciousness.
A person does not have panic attacks.
If the heart begins to beat more often due to the influence of external factors on the body, then the normalization of its rhythm happens quickly, in just a few seconds. For this to happen, you just need to calm down.
If a person goes in for sports, then he needs to control his own pulse and be able to measure the maximum possible heart rate. To do this, the number of years must be subtracted from the number 220. For example, if a man is 40 years old, then during sports, the heart rate per minute should not exceed 180 beats.
Video: cardiologist of the medical center “NEBOLIT” about the rapid pulse: