What? High blood pressure can cause deafness? We are all a bit surprised to hear that, high blood pressure and deafness are two different things, how are they connected 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 serious concern for people. Long-term high blood pressure caused by heart, brain, kidney, retina damage has been well known by the public, but in fact if high blood pressure can not get good control for a long time, the damage is far more than that, for example, can cause deafness! Clinical research has 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, hypertension must be actively treated to slow down the progression 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), you can only undergo therapeutic lifestyle intervention, which mainly includes: 1) Reduce body weight: control BMI at <24kg/m2 as far as possible; 2) Decrease sodium intake: the daily salt intake per person should not be more than 6g; 3) Replenish potassium: eat fresh vegetables and fruits every day; 4) Decrease fat intake: reduce cooking oil intake; 5) Reduce the amount of fat consumed by people who have high blood pressure. Fat intake: reduce cooking oil intake, eat less or no fatty meat and animal offal; 5, quit smoking and limit alcohol; 6, increase exercise; 7, reduce mental stress, maintain a balanced state of mind; 8, supplement folic acid preparations when necessary. If your blood pressure exceeds the standard of Grade 1 hypertension, it is difficult to control your blood pressure in the normal range just by lifestyle intervention, so let our experienced doctors help you to reach the standard of blood pressure.