The response would lower heart rate and dilate the arterioles in an effort to lower total peripheral resistance, and therefore lower the mean arterial blood pressure. In a situation of someone who has chronic high blood pressure, the set points in the baroreceptor reflex would raise permanently and begin to act as though the high blood pressure set point is the new normal in the body. This is how chronic high blood pressure is unable to reverse by itself, due to high set points in the baroreceptor reflex.
An example of a form of chronic high blood pressure the disease Pulmonary Hypertension. Pulmonary Hypertension is a rare disease in which chronic high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries and furthermore increased pulmonary vascular resistance can lead to right heart failure. Pulmonary Hypertension is caused by a narrowing of the pulmonary arteries, which makes it more difficult for blood to flow through the lungs,