Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure - How Are the Two Related?

In addition to this we most often told to change our exercise and eating habits. For many, this means adopting some sort of exercise routine after years of inactivity. Exercise and diet helps to improve health, but even a healthy new habit is very hard to adopt. All the people do this correctly and without questioning. Medicines taken for cholesterol and high blood pressure mostly work.

Medicines are considered to be an easy option, as it involves very little effort. It is just following the prescription of taking medicines every day. Only when we get the side effects of that medication we think about it. Let me ask a very basic question? Why blood pressure and cholesterol should in control? Because high blood pressure can lead to damages of tissues in kidney, heart and eyes. And this may lead to heart attack, stroke, blindness if not treated.

The systolic reading of high blood pressure is 140 and diastolic reading is 90. Normally higher blood pressure do not come with any symptoms, so even it has the name of silent killer. Cholesterol is a fatty or waxy substance that is found in cell walls and tissues all over the body including the heart, liver, brain, skin, nerves and intestines. Cholesterol is needed by the body in order to produce certain needed hormones, process vitamin D and bile needed to break down fats.

Actually very little amount of cholesterol is enough to do all this stuff. When there is too much cholesterol in the body, it tends to get settled down in the arteries. The major area it gets settled down is coronary arteries and this may lead to heart disease. When not treated this sediment will narrow the artery walls and this will limit the flow of blood to the heart. And this may lead to chest pain and heart attack.

A simple blood test will reveal the level of cholesterol in our body. Low-density lipoprotein or LDL (bad cholesterol), high- density lipoprotein, or HDL (good cholesterol) and triglycerides (other fatty substances in the blood) are measured. Other factors that can lead to cholesterol are heredity, obesity, age, stress and usage of alcohol. Many of the studies based on cholesterol shows that diets that contain high saturated fat can lead to high cholesterol.

HDL level of cholesterol can be increased by moderate drinking. But it do not lower LDL level of cholesterol and heavy drinking may lead to liver disease and high blood pressure. While high blood pressure does not lead to high cholesterol, studies tell us that they are two of the leading controllable risk factors for heart disease, the number one killer in developed countries. These same studies tell us that the chances of someone with high blood pressure and low cholesterol (and vice-versa) are less than 10 percent.

This shouldn't be surprising as they share many of the same risk factors (age, weight, diet). Added to this, it takes different drugs to treat each condition. This often leads to multiple medications and a greatly increased chance for dangers of drug interactions.

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