Many hypertensive patients, especially male patients after suffering from hypertension, especially after taking western medicine to lower blood pressure for a period of time, often have a certain impact on sexual function. So how much does hypertension affect sexual function? The first is the impact of hypertension on sexual function: according to statistics, the number of people with hypertension who have sexual dysfunction is more than four times that of healthy men, mainly manifested as penile erectile insufficiency, that is, impotence. Penile erection is caused by an increase in blood flow to the penis, resulting in an increase in pressure in the cavernous body, causing an erection of the genitals. In the case of hypertensive patients, the arterial vessels supplying blood to the penis are very tiny, only half a millimeter in diameter, and hypertension can cause damage or impairment of these blood flow pathways, and the penis will not be able to erect properly. The excitement in sexual life will make the heart rate of hypertensive patients accelerate, blood pressure rise, myocardial oxygen consumption increase, dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue and other discomfort, so that patients produce anxiety, may also cause impotence. Hypertension on sexual function II: In addition to the impact of hypertension itself, hypertensive patients in taking so many antihypertensive Western medicine, damage the kidney function, resulting in erectile dysfunction of the penis. It makes patients have impotence symptoms, reduced sexual ability, erectile dysfunction, reduced sexual awareness or even disappearance. Diuretics like chlorothiazide are widely used to treat hypertension, often in combination with other drugs. However, clinical observation shows that drug-induced sexual dysfunction can occur in about 5% of male patients who take thiazide diuretics for a long time. Once the drug is discontinued, the loss of libido and hypogonadism in men and menstrual abnormalities in women caused by the use of Ativan can be quickly corrected; and the female breast in men caused by Ativan will usually disappear after the drug is discontinued.