Could high blood pressure be causing your headache?
The pendulum has swung back and forth on the connection between hypertension and headaches. A study finds they could be related.
Sometimes a headache throbs just as they show in pain-reliever ads. Other times, it feels like your head is going to explode from the pressure within. With symptoms like these, it certainly seems like high blood pressure, and all that extra pounding of blood against vessel walls, could make someone's head hurt.
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