In Spain, one in three people dies from cardiovascular disease, first cause of death in the world. These data demonstrate the importance of taking care of our heart, with healthy eating and the assiduous practice of exercise, among other things. Risk factors of cardiovascular disease are diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, three serious problems that we must have in our radar so that they do not remain over time and wreak havoc.
But, in addition, a recent study has just shown that there is an important signal to which we should pay attention, which is common to patients around 50 years, and that relates heart problems with hearing failure. The cause? Lack of blood irrigationwhich clearly manifests in the ear.
Risk factors from 50 years
In general, when we visit the doctor, he warns us of certain risk factors that are associated with age, and that can be manifested around fifty years. Autoimmune diseases, alcohol consumption, smoking, high blood pressure, uncontrolled cholesterol, Stress, diabetes, the influence of genetics … Everything affects our general health.
Knowing the signs that warn us of the possibility of suffering from heart disease is also fundamental. Among them, we must pay attention to chest pain, in one arm, in the jaw and even on the back. They must also alert us permanent swollen ankles, inexplicable fatigue, and unexpected palpitations. Now, a new alert element of cardiovascular disease appears in the equation: hearing loss.
This is the relationship between auditory and cardiac health
A recent review of the 2010 investigation at the American Journal of Audiology and a 2024 meta-analysis in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surger, found a close relationship between auditory loss and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, the investigation supports this link, which is produced by the lack of blood flow. And the heart fulfills the function of pump the blood to circulate through the body and reach all organs; If it does so poorly, the organism suffers.
Speaking to Parade de Dr. Victoria Zambrano, Audiologist from Miracle-Ear, “since the ear has some of the smallest blood vessels and vessels in the body, any alteration that occurs in the blood flow (which is associated with cardiovascular diseases, for example) will cause irreversible damage to the auditory system“.
Specifically, according to the expert, those damages “will be produced progressively In the nerve endings of the cochleawhich can cause nerve problems, the most common form of hearing loss. “High blood pressure, diabetes or cholesterol predisposes the patient to suffer blocking in their arteries, which leads to heart disease in many cases.
References
Raymond H. Hull, Stacy R. Chester. ‘The influence of cardiovascular health on peripheral and central auditory function in adults: a research review’. National Library of Medicine. Consultado online en https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20538964/el 18 de febrero de 2025.
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