Pierre-Yves Courand, Michaël Serraille, Nicolas Girerd, Genevieve Demarquay, Hugues Milon, Pierre Lantelme, Brahim Harbaoui
BACKGROUND: The cardiovascular prognostic value of various types of headache, particularly migraine, in the general population remains controversial. The aim of the present study was to assess their prognostic value for all-cause, cardiovascular and stroke mortalities in hypertensive patients. METHODS: A total of 1,914 hypertensive individuals were first categorized according to the absence or presence of headache and thereafter according to the 3 subtypes of headache: migraine, daily headache, and other headache...
September 2016: American Journal of Hypertension