| meone is suffering from high blood pressure they do | | | | to suffer from headaches than those with a much |
| not usually know that there is a problem because | | | | lower reading were. From this study, it suggests that |
| high blood pressure does not normally display any | | | | the higher the blood pressure is, the less likely people |
| symptoms — Hence the name given to it | | | | are to suffer from headaches. |
| — The Silent Killer. But just occasionally | | | | Also during the survey they examined the types of |
| a person may find himself or herself suffering with | | | | headaches people were suffering from. Generally the |
| what can only be referred to as a high blood | | | | higher the reading then the less severe the |
| pressure headache. | | | | headache, if they suffered from headaches at all. |
| The medical community has had some problems | | | | They also examined the systolic readings (the first |
| identifying if there is indeed a link between high blood | | | | number) and found those with a high reading were |
| pressure and headaches. Mainly because many people | | | | less likely to suffer from migraines and this was |
| suffer from headaches, and those that do are more | | | | especially true for women. When they looked at the |
| likely to go to the doctors and subsequently have | | | | diastolic pressure reading (the second number) they |
| their blood pressure taken. | | | | were unable to discover any clear cut association |
| This can skew the statistics and show that more | | | | between this and a person suffering from migraines if |
| people with high blood pressure tend to have | | | | the number was higher than normal. |
| headaches. | | | | These results seemed to suggest that there is no link |
| Also, even if someone does have high blood | | | | between high blood pressure and headaches. In fact |
| pressure, and suffer a headache, the hypertension | | | | they are showing that pain sensitivity in both a |
| cannot be automatically considered as the causal link, | | | | person's brain and spinal cord are reduced when they |
| as people get headaches for many reasons including | | | | are suffering from high blood pressure. |
| dehydration, compression, eye strain and being out in | | | | Some of the historic accusations between high blood |
| cold weather. | | | | pressure may have been made due to the |
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| Combating Blood Pressure newsletter. | | | | visit the doctor or a surgery with headache |
| Certainly in research carried out by the Journal of | | | | symptoms. |
| Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry they stated | | | | Also, there is some suggestion that a person who is |
| that headaches are not being caused by high blood | | | | suffering high blood pressure bought about through |
| pressure. They based their findings on the readings | | | | lifestyle choices, including a potentially poor diet, |
| they took of 22,000 adults who responded to a | | | | inactivity and high levels of stress and anxiety, are |
| survey about the frequency of their headaches. | | | | also people who are likely to have headaches due to |
| On looking at the questionnaire they found that 28% | | | | lifestyle choices rather than high blood pressure. |
| of the participants were suffering from repeated | | | | Finally, there is a suggestion that the high blood |
| headaches and of these 1 in 4 were reporting | | | | pressure headache may be worsened after a patient |
| suffering from migraines. Also they found that those | | | | has been told that they have high blood pressure. |
| who had high blood pressure readings were less likely | | | | |