25Feb/11Off
Why are overweight people more likely to get high blood pressure?
I know obesity increases your risk of developing high blood pressure, just like smoking does for example. But I was wondering why this is the case? What is the mechanism that causes bigger people to be at risk more than someone skinny?
February 25th, 2011 - 16:15
The larger the body mass the more vascular we are. Therefore the heart has to pump harder to deliver blood through out. Also, with obesity there is the relation to improper diet’s higher in cholesterol which clogs up the artieres, making the heart pump harder to push through the plaque resulting in higher blood pressure.
February 25th, 2011 - 16:15
glucose
February 25th, 2011 - 16:15
cos they have more fat in their body and intake more salt
February 25th, 2011 - 16:15
Because they are more likely to have higher levels of cholesterol, which clogs up veins and arteries so the heart has to work harder to pump blood through the body than it would normally.
February 25th, 2011 - 16:15
The fats clog up the arteries. that is why hydrogenated fats are so bad, because they line the inside of the artery wall, and are very hard to break up. This is because of the way the molecules are bonded together. Un hydrogenated fats are easier to break apart, so not as bad.
February 25th, 2011 - 16:15
I have asked the same question to my doctor. I’m very overweight at 540lbs and have no blood pressure issue and keen to keep it like that. Than there are people who are slim that have a blood pressure issue. Overweight is per definition not the cause of high blood pressure; bust statistically overweight people have more change on an increased blood-pressure. Not because of their weight and size, but because food types and genes that cause blood pressure to increase. Its a condition that starts with the hearth that creates to much pressure… has nothing to do with being fat or thin….