Is having a headache a sign of an increased chance of having a stroke? A question that has been asked a lot, and many researchers have sought to find an answer to it. The report, published on the “Gazzetta” website, clarified that headache is a kind of alarm bell that precedes a stroke.
The report indicated that determining the relationship between headache and stroke is of great importance to prevent and treat it, so the researchers followed two groups of patients, members of the first group of people with stroke, and members of the second group who did not have any neurological problems or disorders, and the researchers classified the different types of headaches. In both groups, during a full year before admission to the hospital, as well as a week before the stroke and on the day of the injury.
The researchers were able to distinguish 3 types of headaches:
Common pain known to patients.
A headache and severe pain they had never felt before.
A headache with variable features, meaning that its intensity, frequency and length change, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and photophobia and sound, and was not affected by analgesic drugs.
The researchers revealed that the headache of a variable type with severe pain was felt by patients who had a stroke, as it turned out that regarding 15 percent of them had headaches during the last week before their stroke, and 15 percent of them with the onset of the stroke.
