PERCEPTION OF HEADACHE IS INTERLINKED WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: A POPULATION BASED MULTICENTER PROSPECTIVE STUDY

Abstract

Objective: Perception of headache is interlinked with high blood pressure: a population based multicenter prospective study. Patients And Methods: A prospective observational study has been conducted in a total of 8 months from December 2019 to July 2020 and data has been collected from the Department of out-patient (OPD) of three different hospitals, Department of Cardiology, Isra University Hospital (IUH), Department of Medicine Liaquat University Hospital (LUH), Hyderabad, and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Tando Muhammad Khan. A cohort of 911 patients who presented with complains of headache supposedly due to high blood pressure. Baseline and clinical data were recorded in a pre structured questionnaire and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. Results: Out of total 911 patients presented with headache, the overall incidence rate of high blood pressure in patients presented with headache was less than 30% (n = 272, 29.85%). Female patients presented with headache were younger than male patients, 27.41±9.23 vs. 36.88±11.78 years, respectively. Among these patients, most of them had headache when their mean systolic blood pressure 173.87±13.54mmHg and a diastolic 97.22±8.01mmHg, p <0.05. Conclusion: Our study shows that overall burden of ventricular tachyarrhythmias is almost the double in patients with LVSD and with multiple comorbid conditions as compared with patients normal left ventricular systolic function.