Fat serves two purposes; the first one being that we use it store energy in case of periods of need for energy, when no uptake of energy is present.
Additionally humans, like most mammals, will also store fat to conserve body heat, those with more adipose tissue tend to thermoregulate better especially in colder environments.
Explanation: Hypertension is when your heart is working hard to pump blood to throughout the body. In other words the heart is strained and over worked. The higher blood pleasure causes the heart to be stressed having to work harder to pump blood. Hypertension could also cause a heart attack because the heart is strained. Sorry for repetition.
