Medicinski Glasnik (Feb 2009)
The interconnection between chronic pain and artery hypertension
Abstract
Aim The aim of this survey is to prove the connection between chronic pain and artery hypertension,within chronic pain syndromes, as well as to prove that with accurate analgesia; artery hypertensionmay be prevented/alleviated as caused by systematic effects of chronic pain.Methods The survey included 37 patients suffering from chronic pain who were treated at the PainUnit of the Clinical Hospital in Osijek. The patients, at the time of their first appointment at the Clinic,through the conclusion of their treatment, as well as at the final check up two weeks after the terminationof the treatment, filled out a survey “A short questionnaire on pain”. In addition to the assessment oftheir momentary pain, during the survey the pain was measured when it was the strongest, the weakestand also an average pain during a weeks time (the pain being measured with a visual analogue scaleVAS ranging from 0 – 10). Within the aforementioned survey the artery, the systolic and the diastolicblood pressure was measured, including the heart frequency.Results The subjective sensation of pain during the second and third examination was remarkably lesserthan at the first examination of the over-all pain assessments, whilst the difference between the secondand the third checkup is not accertained. The same applies to the systolic and diastolic blood preassure.The difference in heart frequency between the single examinations is not stringent.Conclusion With patients suffering from chronic pain, a lessening of the subjective sensation of painand blood preassure was reported after the use of analgesia, which purports the possible connection ofanalgesia and artery hypertension.
