Is there a correlations between hypertension and high cholesterol?

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Question by Artemis: Is there a correlations between hypertension and high cholesterol?
It seems that people who have high blood difficulty evenly have high cholesterol as well. Is there any correlation between the two? Do they go hand in hand?

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Answer by Medical apprentice class of 2008
Hypertension and hypercholesterolemia have an association but one does not necessarily cause the other. The reason that people with hypertension tend to have high cholesterol is because people with hypertension have some of the same risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, stoutness.

High cholesterol could cause hypertension if the arteries leading to the kidneys are narrowed by cholesterol deposits. When this happens the kidney thinks that the blood difficulty is low and it releases a hormone that increases blood difficulty. Smoking causes destruction to the insides of the blood vessels making it simpler for cholesterol deposits to form. Stoutness leads to increased overall cholesterol levels in the blood promoting deposition on the blood vessel walls.

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