Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) and Obesity

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If you are obese, you might have heard from your doctor that you have to reduce your weight and loose that extra fat. The thing is, they would not explain to you the relationship of obesity and hypertension. Obese patients often have hypertension due to an increase in the total blood vessel length caused by the additional blood vessels in their fats (adipose tissue). About 650 km of additional blood vessels develop for each kilogram of fat. So if you are begining to get that extra fat, think of this: The more fats, you add more blood vessels, the greater the heart has to pump to supply that additional fats.