• Can high blood pressure affect your eye sight?

I am a 32-year-old male who has high blood pressure. Can high blood pressure affect your eye sight?

7 Answers

  • Ophthalmologist
  • San Juan, PR

High blood pressure can damage the blood vessels that supply blood to your eyes causing damage to the retina and blurred vision.

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Singapore,

Rarely a stroke in the eye or retinal vessels cause visual effects

  • Optometrist
  • Lafayette, LA

Absolutely, yes! It can also cause hypertensive retinopathy.

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Brookfield, OH

Yes, high blood pressure can cause the blood vessels inside your eyes to leak and bleed. See an ophthalmologist.

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Hamden, CT

Yes. If you have high blood pressure and your vision has changed, you need to see an eye MD soon.

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Saint Louis, MO

Yes. The circulation into each eye is carried by small blood vessels that can be damaged by high blood pressure.

  • Optometrist
  • Ithaca, NY

Absolutely!

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