What is the connection between high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease?

Question: What is the connection between high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease?
- Keywords:
  blood pressure,
  heart disease,
  hypertension
Asked by Zaina63 to Cristina, Gemma, Praveen on 19 Nov 2015.
- Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 19 Nov 2015:
  
  Hi Zaina!
  
  Thanks for your question! Hypertension hurts your arteries, making their walls weaker and then you have more chances of getting cholesterol deposited there. When this happens the arteries that take the blood to the heart can get blocked and you can get a heart attack

Question: What is the connection between high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease?