I would reverse the question and ask "What is the relationship between hypertension and cholesterol. When one defines dyslipidemia as a ratio between LDL-c and HDL-c--and I prefer the Cholesterol Retention Fraction (CRF) for my definition of dyslipidemia--then people in the general population are often dyslipidemic, with a abnormal CRF of about 50% in men and 33% in women. In the population with atherothrombotic disease (ATD), the men have a 66% incidence and women a 50% incidence. Hypertensive people with no dyslipidemia tend to be quite old when their ATD events occur.