HBP and Cholesterol - The Relationship Between Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure

Since the time high blood pressure has been diagnosed, cholesterol has already been tied to it. An overwhelming percentage of HBP cases have blamed cholesterol as the culprit and only few has another kind of causes like an underlying complications in the body and as a result of the present medications.

Cholesterol seems to be inevitable. It is first and foremost manufactured inside our body by our bile and it virtually helps in almost all of our bodily functions. Cholesterol is like a "lubricating oil" of our body, that without it our body cannot carry out its functioning well. Just like the good ole' lube oil of machines. Cholesterol teams up with lipoprotein and then the two of them carries essential nutrients to every parts of our body where they will be needed.

What Makes Cholesterol Bad then?

During the whole process of sending essential nutrients, LDL, or otherwise known as bad cholesterol loses some of its components in the way and leaving them behind. Due to its insoluble nature, the particles that was constantly been left upon slowly builds up everyday and manage to cement itself up in our blood vessels, most specifically in our arteries. Upon clinging to our arteries these LDL traces solidify due to inactivity and also cause our arteries to harden. The hardened cholesterol now becomes "plaque". As our bodily process continues day and night so as the plaque build up.

On the other hand, HDL, or what we came to know as good cholesterol is acting as a "janitor" or cleaner cholesterol. Aside from its primary task as a means of transport also, good cholesterol, upon "seeing" that many traces of our bad cholesterol has been left along the way is supposed to pick up those "leftovers" and transport it back to our liver so that our body can get rid of it.

But due to our excessive intake of foods containing saturated fats that is very unnecessary in our body and in turn adds the supply of bad cholesterol in our body, these good cholesterols cannot in any way handle the situation properly because they were greatly outnumbered now by the bad cholesterols. This makes their "cleaning" assignment very hard to perform and as a result, the build up of bad cholesterol in our arteries continue. The further bad cholesterol build up in our arteries will eventually cause:

• A blockade or the narrowing of the arteries that a normal passing of the blood will now be disrupted.
• Due to the narrow passage, our heart will tend to pump more strongly to increase the pressure of the blood so that it can pass through the blocked arteries.
• Because of the strong heart pumping, our blood will travel in a faster speed and will create a significant pressure in the arterial walls. This condition is what we called high blood pressure now.
• Too much pressure in the arteries sometimes causes it to break and blood will spurt out of it. A person suffering from this kind of condition may eventually die due to severe lose of blood in the arteries or internal hemorrhage

It is very important that in order for us to enjoy life, we should take an appropriate action in reducing our cholesterol intake. In that way our life may not be jeopardized due to the hazards of high blood pressure that too much cholesterol could bring.

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