Blood Pressure Drugs Prevent Some Headaches

Blood pressure-lowering drugs also prevent some headaches, British researchers report.

For their review, the researchers looked at studies in which patients were taking drugs to lower their blood pressure, and also reported whether or not they had headaches. The researchers found that one-third fewer people reported headaches while taking blood-pressure-lowering drugs than did people taking a placebo.

"We show that a blood pressure-lowering drug seems to prevent headaches," said study author Malcolm Law, a professor of epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine of Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. "They seem to prevent about a third of headaches."

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