AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -High blood pressure increases the force of blood through your arteries and can damage artery walls. Having both high blood pressure and diabetes can greatly increase your risk for heart disease. Too much LDL (“bad”) cholesterol in your bloodstream can form plaque on damaged artery walls.

Detailed explanation-2: -When you have diabetes, you’re more at risk of heart disease. This is also called cardiovascular disease (CVD) or coronary disease, and can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Cardiovascular disease affects your circulation too.

Detailed explanation-3: -If untreated, hypertension is a major cause of stroke, coronary heart disease and renal failure as well as other conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Smoking or having high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity or a strong family history of heart disease makes you more likely to get coronary artery disease.

Detailed explanation-5: -These include high cholesterol, insulin resistance, and high blood pressure. These risk factors may lead to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Because metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance are closely tied, many healthcare providers believe that insulin resistance may be a cause of metabolic syndrome.