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.