For example loneliness increases vascular resistance, which moves blood to the muscles and heart. (fortune.com)
The body tries to compensate by increasing heart rate and peripheral vascular resistance to help maintain normal blood pressure. (todaysveterinarynurse.com)
After parturition and the onset of breathing, pulmonary vascular resistance falls, flow in the ductus reverses, and the resulting rise in arterial oxygen tension inhibits local prostaglandin release causing constriction of the vascular smooth muscle within the vessel wall and functional closure of the ductus arteriosus3. (balkanvets.com)