People commonly think that hypertension and high cholesterol are one and the same things but actually they are two different things and when both of them combine they make life threatening combination. High level of cholesterol in the blood will lead to development of hypertension which in turn gives rise to deadly combination of diseases such as stroke and heart failure.

Hypertension is the condition where the heart faces difficulty in pumping the blood to various organs of the body and is under constant pressure. If you are suffering from high blood pressure then it is clear indication that you are also affected by hypertension. It is not possible to totally avoid cholesterol because it plays an important role in maintenance of cell membranes. But excessive cholesterol leads to obesity and it gets deposited in the inner walls of the arteries thereby blocking them.

Arteries can expand only to a certain amount so initially you may not feel the symptoms of hypertension, but as the time passes and cholesterol deposition raises to such a level that heart finds it really difficult to make blood available to other parts of the body. Due to this the heart has to pump rapidly which is the cause for the rising blood pressure.