title: Altered pain perception in hypertensive humans.
abstract: Sensory and pain thresholds to electrical stimulation of tooth pulps were measured in normotensive and essential hypertensive unmedicated human subjects. In both adult and young subjects there was a significant correlation between blood pressure and pain sensitivity: hypertensives had a higher threshold for sensation of pain in the tooth-pulp test than normotensive controls. An interrelationship between blood pressure and pain regulation is suggested.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D003782:Dental Pulp / Q000294:innervation; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009619:Nociceptors / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds