It absolutely can affect your life insurance. Understandably that’s a problem of privilege but it’s a truth.

High blood pressure can be quite manageable with medications for most people and one should qualify for life insurance after that.

I know very much about the issue because I had kidney failure due to an autoimmune disease and had to deal with years of dialysis and just recently got a kidney transplant. High blood pressure is a very common issue in kidney failure and even that with the right combination of medications it was mostly manageable.

Its much hard to get life insurance after kidney disease. The best shot is through an employer group life insurance plan. And with my last employer I was able to covert it to an individual plan after I left.