white coat hypertension

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Meaning: (medicine,idiomatic)Elevatedblood pressuremeasured by amedicalpractitionerand deemed to result from thepatient'semotionalresponse to the medicalenvironment.Synonyms:white coat effect,white coat syndrome,white coat high blood pressure1988January 8, T. G. Pickeringet al., “How common iswhite coat hypertension?”, inJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):Patients withwhite coat hypertensiondid not show a generalized increase of blood pressure lability, nor an exaggerated pressor response while at work. . . . In such patients, the pressor response may be relatively specific to the physician's office and lead to significant misclassification of hypertension.

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