News - Hypertension Week of July 27, 2003/ Vol. 2 No. 30

Study: No Link Found Between Hypertension and Nose Bleeds

Brazilian researchers report that a study has found no evidence to link nose bleeds to high blood pressure.

As reported in the May issue of the journal Blood Pressure, a team of Brazilian researchers tested the link between the two in a study involving 1,174 individuals over the age of 18.

Participants who used anti-hypertensive medication or who had blood pressure readings equal to or higher than 160 over 95 were considered to be hypertensive.

The reseachers found that the prevalence of nose bleeding problems and hypertension in the study participants were 15 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

But they did not find an association between high blood pressure and nose bleeds. Instead, they found that nosebleeds were positively associated with history of allergic rhinitis and inversely associated with years that the participants spent in school.

Other sources: Blood Pressure 2003;12(3):145-8