Can High Blood Sugar Increase Your Blood Pressure?
by Tonya L. Breaux-Shropshire, PhD, DNP, FNP, MPH Can high blood sugar increase your blood pressure? Heck yeah, but how or why? Your doctor already told you that you need to reduce your salt intake to help control your blood pressure. It seems that not many people know that they need to reduce their sugar intake as well. Here is how sugar increase your blood pressure: Sugar increases your uric acid level which blocks your body's ability to make nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes your blood vessels, which reduces your blood pressure. Without enough nitric oxide, your blood vessels will stiffen causing an increase in your blood pressure. Too much sugar causes you to store excess sugar as fat leading to excessive weight gain. Excessive weight gain leads to you…