منابع مشابه
Beyond the White Coat Ceremony
Note from Anna B. Reisman, Co-Director, Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers' Workshop, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System: This issue inaugurates a new feature: selected writings from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghes...
متن کامل["White coat" hypertension].
The literature concerning the problem of "white coat" hypertension is reviewed. The diagnosis of such hypertension is important for valid treatment policy in hypertensive patients. This diagnosis is based primarily on the data of 24-h blood pressure monitoring.
متن کاملWhite Coat Phenomenon
The term white coat hypertension (WCH) was initially introduced in 1984 to describe patients who had hypertension in the office but were normotensive with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). At the time, WCH was simply a phenomenon with nothing known about its possible effect on the development of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Three decades later, it is apparent that hypertension in the...
متن کاملDecoding white coat hypertension
There is arguably no less understood or more intriguing problem in hypertension that the "white coat" condition, the standard concept of which is significantly blood pressure reading obtained by medical personnel of authoritative standing than that obtained by more junior and less authoritative personnel and by the patients themselves. Using hospital-initiated ambulatory blood pressure monitori...
متن کاملWhite coat effect and white coat hypertension: one and the same?
White coat hypertension (WCHT) and white coat effect (WCE) are often thought to be of the same entity. They are in fact different conditions which carry distinctive definitions and prognostic significance. WCHT is diagnosed when office blood pressure (OBP) is ≥140/90 mmHg on at least 3 occasions, while the average daytime or 24-hour blood pressure is <135/85 mmHg. It is common with 15% prevalen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000000132