The nurse questions the patient with hypertension about the symptoms of headache because hypertension headaches characteristically occur as:
1. frontal in the afternoon.
2. temporal on exertion.
3. occipital on arising.
4. frontal at night.
3
Hypertension occipital headaches occur on awakening.
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