cholesterol

The medicine you are taking for anticholesterol is only for the cholesterol floating in your blood and not on the cholesterol plaques which is the cause of narrowing of the arteries. Now, we are giving medicines for anti-cholesterol in the hope that less plaques would form. In the meantime, the preexisting plaques remain. In some hypertensive patients, the cause is the presence of these cholesterol plaques in the arteries. Taking the anti-cholesterol reduces the likelihood of stroke and/or the persistence of very high blood pressure. But not all patients benefit from this therapy. If all patients are forced to take the present protocol of hypertension management taking the anti-cholesterol,  cases of liver cirrhosis will rise. Where are you now in your hypertensive therapy? Talk to your doctor if he is aware of this. I usually discontinue anticholesterol medicines when my patients do not lower their blood pressure after 6 months of taking this anticholesterol.