Significance of White-Coat Hypertension in Older Persons With Isolated Systolic Hypertension
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Clinical significance of white-coat hypertension.
DEFINITION AND PREVALENCE OF WHITE-COAT HYPERTENSION: White-coat hypertension describes the phenomenon of an abnormal blood pressure reading when taken by a physician and a normal reading with ambulatory or home monitoring. The results of studies suggest that the true prevalence of white-coat hypertension may be 20%. The magnitude of the effect using either the oscillometric or the auscultatory...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.111.180653