G38 Is white coat hypertension the first step of sustained hypertension?
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White-coat hypertension is hypertension.
The article in this issue from Puato et al1 in Padova, Italy, is important because it was prospective, with 5 years of follow-up, and the hypertensive patients were never treated. They showed that carotid intima-media thickness was greater at baseline in white-coat hypertensive subjects (WCHs), increased more during follow-up than in normotensive subjects, and was not different in WCHs with sus...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Hypertension
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0895-7061
DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(97)88891-7