Cells link headache to heart disease.The head and the heart are more closely connected than even bad poets claim researchers reported this week. Margaret Chandler and her colleagues at the University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. in Oklahoma City have demonstrated in two monkeys that nerve cells at the top of the spinal cord spinal cord, the part of the nervous system occupying the hollow interior (vertebral canal) of the series of vertebrae that form the spinal column, technically known as the vertebral column. can respond both to head and heart stimulation. This area in the monkey's neck has been known to contain neurons that receive signals from the heart. Out of 19 such neurons tested, 10 also fired when the researchers activated the nerve that communicates with the blood vessel blood vessel n. An elastic tubular channel, such as an artery, a vein, a sinus, or a capillary, through which the blood circulates. blood vessel(s), n the network of muscular tubes that carry blood. running along the top of the monkey's brain. In people, this nerve registers headache pain. A nervous-system link between the head and the heart could account for anecdotal reports of people whose only sign of heart disease is a splitting headache, Chandler suggests. In the September 1997 NEUROLOGY, Richard B. Lipton and his colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) is a graduate school of Yeshiva University. It is a private medical school located in the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University in the Morris Park in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of reported on two men who developed severe headaches while exercising. Subsequent testing revealed that the men were suffering from heart disease. When the heart disease was treated, the exertion-triggered headaches cleared up. However, "headaches are not a very sensitive or specific reason to target heart disease," cautions A. Michael Lincoff of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. If headaches occur exclusively while exercising, however, a stress test to reveal heart disease might be in order, he says. |
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