Do I Have White-Coat Hypertension or Hypertension? : What you should do to check your blood pressure
2010-07-21
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Do I Have White-Coat Hypertension or Hypertension? : What you should do to check your blood pressure
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Many patients report that they have elevated blood pressures when they go to the doctor’s office, but normal pressures when measured sporadically at places such as a grocery store. This is white-coat hypertension. Because sustained hypertension can have such bad effects on one’s health, differentiating white-coat hypertension from sustained hypertension is very important. This pamphlet is designed to help patients monitor their blood pressure to determine whether their elevated clinic reading is due to white-coat hypertension or hypertension. Patients that have persistently elevated office readings with no end-organ damage should first self-measure their blood pressure for at least 3 days at 12 hr intervals. If elevated, treatment may be initiated, and if normal, ambulatory blood pressure measurements are needed to rule out sustained hypertension.
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Wentland, Amy. (2010). Do I Have White-Coat Hypertension or Hypertension? : What you should do to check your blood pressure. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/92184.
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