There has been an age-old debate as to whether headache is closely related to hypertension. It is a medical truth that headache is one of the symptoms of high blood pressure. But hypertension, to be noted, has no clear symptoms and more often than not occur without signs. It is a silent killer. The question however is not how headache is connected to hypertension but the real question is: “what significant difference in headache is present between a hypertensive patient and not?”
Headache can be caused by many factors. In a common instance, it is a result of anxiety, work stress, emotional stress, excessive or inappropriate medication, temperature changes, fever, or physical accident. In a hypertension case, headache is decisive and sometimes illusive. Doctors suggest that headaches occur as an instantaneous result of high blood pressure. To a hypertension patient it is an after affect, however, to a person who has not known he has one or has none at all, how will he know if this headache has significance to his health.
A book in 1968 titled “High Blood Pressure”, nevertheless, did not sustain the notion that headache is an effect of continuous high blood pressure. Headache that is experienced by a hypertensive person is a result of psychoneurosis according to the author. An unusual condition or strictly, a mental illness that causes anxiety, distress and impairs proper function of organs. He strengthens this proposition by elaborating that a patient who suffers hypertension is usually mentally disturbed and thus the adverse result of psychoneurosis is headache.
The author of the book also pointed out that since headache is reason outpatients resort to doctors to check up if they have high blood pressure, adults have conditioned their mind to such idea. This is especially true in the United States and Great Britain. The author’s psychoneurotic theory, on the other hand, is yet to be proven.
To get a better view of variation of headache experienced by hypertensive people, skeptics are starting to look at surveys and what they have to say. In 1953, a study was conducted by doctors in the United States that observed and interviewed persons who were aware and unaware they had hypertension. Of the 12 persons diagnosed with hypertension, 10 reported occurrences of headache. While only 1 reported headache out of 6 persons who were yet diagnosed but were later found to have hypertension. This led to the conclusion of some doctors, that headache of hypertensive people, is caused by anxiety.
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