INTRODUCTION "White coat hypertension" is a phenomenon in which patients exhibit elevated blood pressure in clinical setting, but not recorded by themselves at home. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate frequency of "white coat hypertension" in type 2 diabetic patients, in which high blood pressure values in clinical setting were observed for the first time. PATIENTS AND METHODS...

The authors aimed to assess the reproducibility of normotension and white-coat, masked, and sustained hypertension in 839 untreated patients who underwent two separate assessments (median, 3; interquartile range, 0-13 months) by both office and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring (ABPM). The proportion of patients falling into the same category in the two assessments was: 52% normotension...

Introduction: If the blood pressure of a pregnant woman is ≥140/90 mmHg at the clinic, but her ambulatory blood pressure is less <135/85 mmHg at daytime and <125/75 at night and her average ambulatory in 24 hours is <130/80 mmHg, her high blood pressure at clinic is considered white coat hypertension. Objectives: To evaluate the value of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in pregnant women. P...

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare blood mmHg, respectively. In group B, they were unchanged during pressure (BP) biofeedback treatment (BF) effects between the same period but later suppressed by BF. Under BF, pulse white-coat hypertension and essential hypertension. Methods: and respiratory rates were significantly higher, and elevation Fifteen white-coat hypertensive out-pa...

One can easily generate a noisy and angry discussion in any physicians’ dining room in the United States by bringing up the subject of managed care systems and their use of financial incentives to control physicians’ behavior. Generally, the reaction will range from a palpable frustration among the younger physicians to a feeling of resignation in the senior colleagues. The latter group will th...

There are many examples of medical forgetfulness. In the early 1900s, heart attack was called “coronary thrombosis”, but this pathological process was forgotten in the excitement of cholesterol in all its variations and implications. It was not until the concept of thrombolysis became practical that treatment was refocused on the true pathology. White coat hyperglycemia has suffered the same ne...

OBJECTIVES This study planned to establish whether sympathetic hyperactivity exists in white-coat hypertension (WHT) in the clinical setting, relative to matched groups with normotension (NT) and untreated essential hypertension (EHT). BACKGROUND White-coat hypertension differs from EHT by the presence of normal ambulatory blood pressure. Sympathetic hyperactivity exists in patients with EHT ...

A "white coat" ceremony functions as a rite of passage for students entering medical school. This comment provides a second option in response to the earlier, more enthusiastic, discussion of the ceremony by Raanan Gillon. While these ceremonies may serve important sociological functions, they raise three serious problems: whether the professional oath or "affirmation of professional commitment...

Home blood pressure monitoring is useful in detecting white-coat and masked hypertension and is recommended for patients with suspected or treated hypertension. The prognostic significance of white-coat and masked hypertension detected by home measurement was investigated in 6458 participants from 5 populations enrolled in the International Database of HOme blood pressure in relation to Cardiov...

INTRODUCTION Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) forms the basis for the diagnosis of masked hypertension, a condition associated with increased target organ damage, and of white-coat hypertension, a common condition among subjects referred to hypertensive centers. The aim of this study was to compare the circadian blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) profiles in 1676 Greek subjects ...