Ask the doctor: Do beta blockers and ACE inhibitors help or harm the heart?

Is my long-term use of beta blockers and ACE inhibitors setting me up for heart failure? I understand these drugs keep my heart rate low. If the heart is a muscle, and muscles are strengthened by exercise, won’t slowing the heart weaken it?

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Ask the doctor: Is it okay to travel to a high altitude with high blood pressure?

Some friends invited me to accompany them to Rocky Mountain National Park. I would love to go, but I have high blood pressure and worry that high altitudes are dangerous for people with this condition. Is that the case?

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