Why hypertension patients are prone to coronary heart disease

Coronary heart disease refers to coronary atherosclerotic heart disease. The causes of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease in hypertensive patients may be atherosclerosis, platelet aggregation, myocardial hypertrophy, etc.

1. Atherosclerosis

If the patient with hypertension is seriously ill, the blood pressure cannot be controlled, resulting in structural changes in the arterial wall, atherosclerosis, narrowing of the vascular lumen, obstruction of blood flow, myocardial ischemia, hypoxia, and coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.

2. Platelet aggregation

Hypertension patients due to abnormal blood flow, so that the platelets in the blood easy to aggregate on the arterial wall to form thrombosis, blocking coronary arteries, leading to coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.

3. Cardiac hypertrophy

Hypertensive patients will cause the myocardium to be constantly subjected to excessive load, reduce myocardial function, and then in order to meet the needs of the body, will make the myocardium hypertrophic, increase the oxygen consumption of the heart, affect the systolic and diastolic function of the heart, increase the demand for coronary artery blood supply, if the blood supply is insufficient, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease will occur.