What is the effect of stimulating the vagus nerve on heart rate and blood pressure?

It will slow down the heart and lower the blood pressure. Although other mechanisms may compensate the lowered blood pressure and give a rebound initially, vagal stimulus prevails and BP drops as well. The worse case is fainting.

This is in fact one of the mechanism of vasovagal syncope. More.

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