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In old age arteries carrying blood in the human body become narrow resulting in an increase in the blood pressure. This follows from :

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Pascal's law
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Stoke's law
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Bernoulli's principle
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Archimedes principle
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The correct option is C Bernoulli's principle
In old age arteries carrying blood becomes narrow. Actually due to narrowness and other obstruction the velocity of the flow of blood gets decreased. This results in increased pressure inside the blood vessel, according to Bernoulli's principle.

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