Video: Can High Blood Pressure Cause Hair Loss?

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High blood pressure in itself doesn't contribute to hair loss, but an area of skin with blood vessels that have been damaged by high blood pressure may have hair that stops growing. Discover why hair loss isn't a real concern of people with high blood pressure with help from a physician's assistant in this free video on blood pressure.

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Video Transcript

High blood pressure in of itself probably does not contribute to hair loss. However, if you've got area of skin that's supplied by blood flow and that high blood pressure leads to damage to the blood vessel which leads to blocks built up by high cholesterol and cholesterol plugs in the vessel then the blood supply to that skin uric could be depleted and therefore hair being a part of the skin might stop growing 'cos that would be the most dynamic metabolic process going on in the skin possibly as hair grow. And the hair shaft itself is not alive except right at the base whereas blood supply to the hair follicle which goes up into the base of the hair. The shaft of hair that you see extending beyond the skin is usually just kerototic or non-living skin substances and therefore has no feeling, no blood supply but the base of the hair and the hair follicle itself all supplied with blood. And so those things would be sacrificed first versus the skin staying intact which carries a low metabolic load. So, does high blood pressure cause hair loss? Not really.

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Can High Blood Pressure Cause Hair Loss?

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