3. High Blood Pressure
is a major reason for triggering coronary heart disease. When high blood pressure is not maintained, it can harden and thicken the arteries making the pathway to which blood needs to flow to get to the heart becomes blocked. By eating foods with saturated and trans fats, soda, and salt for years can cause high blood pressure and weaken the body’s ability to function correctly. Continuing to eat these foods will increase the risk even more.
In fact, atherosclerosis is a process in which high blood pressure causes the coronary arteries to become too narrow to allow blood to serve the heart because of the build-up of fat and other substances in the body that causes plaque. The plaque becomes heightened, which causes coronary heart disease. The risk of developing coronary heart disease is higher when a person has another medical condition on top of high blood pressure.