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Published on: May 10, 2017
Prevalence of hypertension in patients with trigeminal neuralgia
Antonia Teruel1, Saravanan Ram, Satish K S Kumar
1Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine Center, USC School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0641, USA. teruel@usc.edu
Abstract:
It is unclear whether hypertension (HTN) is a predisposing factor for the development of trigeminal neuralgia (TN). The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of HTN in TN patients and controls at the USC Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine Center. A retrospective chart review was conducted from a database of over 3,000 patient records from 2003 to 2007. We identified patients diagnosed with TN with or without HTN. A total of 84 patients (54 females; 30 males) between the ages of 33 and 93 years were diagnosed with TN; 37% had TN with HTN and 32% of controls had HTN. The increased prevalence of HTN in the TN patients was not statistically significant (P = 0.50). Since, both TN and HTN are seen in the elderly, it is likely that HTN is simply a co-existing condition in patients with TN and not a risk factor for its development.
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