Open AccessBehavior of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Surrounding Episodes of Headache in Mildly Hypertensive Patients
Author(s) -
Miguel Gus,
Flávio Danni Fuchs,
Maurício Pimentel,
Daniela Dornelles Rosa,
Alex Gules Melo,
Leila Beltrami Moreira
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.161.2.252
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , ambulatory blood pressure , ambulatory , diastole , observational study , anesthesia , cardiology , physical therapy
Headache is usually associated with high blood pressure (BP) despite the lack of evidence of such an association in most observational studies. Ambulatory BP monitoring provides an opportunity to analyze this relation because it permits measurement of BP before, during, and after episodes of headache.
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