Headache in hypertension patients in young rural population of Punjab
Arif Gulzar, Muhammad Aleem ud Din, M Faheem Siddique, Riasat Ali, Zoya Arif
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ABSTRACT
Objectives;
To find the association of essential hypertension
and headache in rural young population of PUNJAB, so as to treat the cases at
the earliest stage .
Material
and Methods: The study is conducted in medical department
of Pak Red Crescent Medical college Dina Nath in the period from October 2020
to June 2021 . fifty four patients including thirty three males and twenty one
females with essential hypertension in age group of 18-35 were selected after scrutinizing
clinically and on investigations. The patients were then differentiated as
those suffering from generalized headaches without any secondary cause of
headache were included
Results:
Total nineteen patients including seven males
out of thirty three males and twelve out of twenty one females in the
hypertension patients were having headache. So positivity in males was twenty
one percent and in females was fifty seven percent , however in total 19/54 I e
35% were found having headache.
Conclusions: All the patients with hypertension should be further evaluated for
headache and it is not necessary that some secondary cause of hypertension is
necessary for headache but there are many other other pathophysiological links
which are still to be evaluated.
Keywords: headache, hypertension.migraine, antihypertensive