High blood pressure (hypertension) is a serious condition that can frequently creep up on you over the years and rarely produces any symptoms to warn you that you have a problem. High blood pressure affects many areas of the body and is often associated with damage to your heart and, in particular, to coronary artery disease.
Coronary artery disease is a term used to describe several diseases that affect the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Whatever the specific disease the basic problem is that arteries supplying blood to the heart are damaged to such an extent that flood can no longer flow freely into the heart leading to chest pain, an irregular heart rhythm or a heart attack.
