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It depends. If we are talking about bad cholesterol, then the answer is YES. High blood pressure and high (bad) cholesterol are definitely connected. On the other hand, good cholesterol can actually help you attain a normal blood pressure.
When you are high in bad cholesterol levels in the body, chances are you will also have an increased risk of having high blood pressure. The reason is that bad cholesterol or low-density lipoprotein tends to stick to the walls of your arteries and other blood vessels. Doing so, it can drastically block the blood's passageways. This will require your heart to work doubly hard and the force of blood exerted on the walls of your arteries will be much stronger than normal. End result: High blood pressure.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 16y agoYes. One of the easiest ways to understand this is by realizing the association between high cholesterol and atherosclerosis and the contribution of atherosclerosis to hypertension. High cholesterol accelerates the progression of atherosclerosis, a process that's occurring within all of us (present in early stages even in 10-year-olds!). The specifics aren't relevant to this answer; what is relevant is that atherosclerosis of certain arteries is thought to contribute significantly to hypertension.
One example of this is atherosclerosis of the renal artery (called renovascular disease). In this disease, the renal artery becomes narrowed (or stenotic), meaning that the kidneys receive less blood flow. The kidney senses this decrease in flow and triggers a compensatory system to respond. The system heavily involves the so-called renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, which works through a variety of hormones to raise blood pressure in order to increase flow to the kidneys. The increase in blood pressure necessary to return kidney blood flow to normal is often much greater than normal blood pressure; consequently these patients develop hypertension.
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∙ 14y agoHigh blood pressure can increase the likeliness that initial lesions will form on arteries.
Its at those lesion location where cholesterol can build up deposits narrowing arteries.
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Which juice therapies treat high blood pressure and cholesterol?
Juice therapies that use garlic lowers the blood pressure and cholesterol.
What is the mental aspect of high blood pressure and cholesterol?
Too much cholesterol in the blood, or high blood cholesterol, can be serious. People with high blood cholesterol have a greater chance of getting heart disease. High blood cholesterol itself does not cause symptoms, so many people are unaware that their cholesterol level is too high.
What are the causes of heart disease?
High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, Diabetes, Obesity, smoking, age, stress, and even heredity.
What is the normal heart rate for a senior 79 years old with diabetic cholesterol high blood pressure?
What is the normal heart rate for a 79 female with diabeties, high cholesterol and high blood pressure
Can a person with high blood pressure eat pork?
You shouldn't if you have high cholesterol.
What are the causes of high blood pressure?
High cholesterol levels, and not enough exercise.
Why salt leads problem to blood pressure?
High colesterol
Does gastric problem leads to high blood pressure?
yes
What is the physiological aspect of High blood pressure and cholesterol?
dengue epidemiological triad
Is simvastatin given for high blood pressure?
No, simvastatin is a cholesterol lowering medication.
Is it bad to have a high blood pressure when you are 12 and weigh 95 pounds?
It is bad to have high blood pressure at any age, at any weight. High blood pressure in childhood leads to worse cases of high blood pressure in adulthood also.
How Cholesterol affects the respiratory system?
It indirectly affects the respiratory system. Cholesterol affects the circulatory system and there is high blood pressure. Due to high blood pressure, the heart cannot pump a lot of blood to the body which indirectly affects the lungs!
