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Which is worse with respect to heart disease, high cholesterol or hypertension?


I have read that the medical community has attributed too much blame to high cholesterol as a precursor to heart disease.

They both are contributors but heart disease works this way....... Your blood pressure is measuring the force at which you blood is pushed through your arteries. When you have chronic hypertension, the forces causes gouges or nicks in you arterial walls. When this happens, your body must repair the damage. It does so by using cholesterol to "paste" up the damage. It normally will use your HDL or "good" cholesterol, which is what you want b/c it creates a smooth and nice repair. When there isnt enough HDL available, your body must use your supply of LDL or "bad" cholesterol. This is very lousy, unstable "paste" and makes a bad repair job. These bad repair jobs are what cardiologists refer to as "hardening" of the arteries" b/c LDL is not flexible. If at some point these bad repair jobs rupture, then your body will use platelets to clot the area and that is a heart attack.......The true answer is that they are both precursors for heart disease as well as a few others. But the key and starter of this chain of events is HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. It is the most to blame. Keep your blood pressure below 120/80 and you will be fine.
ask a doctor to know the best and the most correct answer.
you have heard right. Hypertension does much more damage.
RN
Hypertension. Although, a combination of the two would be worse.
Neither factor is definitively "worse".

you can compare the relative risks using a 10 year CVD risk score. These graphs will help you.

You can calculate your own risk here:

http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/atpiii/calcul...

and play with the variables to your hearts content.
http://www.escardio.org/nr/rdonlyres/34c...
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