High blood pressure could be linked to deadly cancers

High blood pressure — also known as hypertension — is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke. But the condition can also increase the risk of developing cancer, researchers have claimed, according to express.co.uk.

Experts believe as many as one in four people could be living with high blood pressure in the UK.

Persistent high blood pressure can increase your risk of a number of serious conditions including vascular dementia, kidney disease and aortic aneurysms.

The condition is more common in people who are overweight or obese, those over the age of 65 and people who don’t do enough exercise.

Lack of exercise and being overweight has also been linked to cancer.

Being overweight or obese is the single biggest cause of preventable cancer in the UK after smoking and is linked to 13 types of cancer including bowel and breast cancer.

Experts revealed how adding eight centimeters to the hips is linked to a 15 percent increased risk of bowel cancer — one of the most common forms of cancer.

In September 2011, experts said raised blood pressure is linked to a higher risk of developing cancer or dying from the disease.

The study included more than 280,000 men and 280,000 women.

It revealed higher than normal blood pressure was associated with a ten to 20 percent higher risk of developing cancer in men.

The researchers also found that, as blood pressure rose, the risk of oral, colorectal, lung, bladder and kidney cancers, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers rose in men.

Experts also found high blood pressure was linked to a higher risk of dying from the disease in men and women.

In women, the experts found blood pressure was linked to increased risk of liver cancer, pancreas,