High blood pressure can cause deafness? Everyone will be surprised to hear this phrase, high blood pressure and deafness are two different things, how to link together. The incidence of high blood pressure is increasing year by year, seriously jeopardizing people’s health, and the complications caused by high blood pressure are a cause for concern. Long-term high blood pressure caused by heart, brain, kidney, retinal damage has been well known by the public, but in fact if hypertension can not get good control for a long time, the damage is far more than that, for example, can cause deafness. Clinical investigations have found that hypertensive patients are more likely to suffer from tinnitus and deafness than healthy people. And we usually see patients with high blood pressure, there are also a considerable part of the accompanying tinnitus, deafness. How is this caused? Hypertensive patients are often accompanied by vascular endothelial cell damage, long-term high blood pressure can promote the formation and development of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis caused by hypertension affects the blood supply of the inner ear, causing degenerative changes in the function of the auditory nerve. In addition, many patients with hypertension are accompanied by hyperlipidemia, which can cause lipid deposition in the inner ear and an increase in lipid peroxide, leading to damage to the inner ear hair cells, vascular atrophy, and insufficient blood supply. One of the major causes of deafness is the blood supply disorder of the inner ear. The blood vessels supplying the inner ear are terminal blood vessels, and there is no supply of collateral circulation vessels. When the blood supply to the inner ear is impaired, the inner ear is not supplied with blood and tissue ischemia or even irreversible necrosis occurs, causing deafness. Therefore, if you have high blood pressure, you must actively treat it to slow down the progress of atherosclerosis, prevent microcirculation disorders and thus slow down the rate of hearing loss. If you have grade 1 hypertension (i.e. systolic blood pressure <160mmHg and diastolic blood pressure <100mmHg), therapeutic lifestyle interventions can be carried out first, which mainly include (1) weight reduction: keep the BMI at <24kg/m2 as far as possible (2) reduction of sodium intake: the amount of salt per person per day should not be more than 6g (3) supplementation of potassium: eat fresh vegetables and fruits every day (4) reduction of fat intake: reduce cooking oil intake. Fat intake: reduce the intake of cooking oil, eat less or no fatty meat and animal offal (5) Quit smoking and limit alcohol (6) Increase exercise (7) Reduce mental stress and maintain a balanced state of mind (8) Supplement with folic acid preparations if necessary. If your blood pressure is still not up to standard after 6 months of lifestyle intervention, or your blood pressure has exceeded the level of grade 1 hypertension, it is recommended that you visit a hypertension specialist in time to develop a reasonable antihypertensive program.