BACKGROUND White-coat response, defined as higher office blood pressure readings than ambulatory readings, is common. Few studies have estimated its prevalence among subjects with treated hypertension, and almost none have defined its determinants. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of white-coat response among subjects with treated hypertension and to determine whether ...

T he white coat ceremony is a common practice at many American and European medical schools. Current justification for the ceremony is mainly based on the good will felt by participants and an assumed connection between the ceremony and encouraging humanistic values in medicine. Recent critiques of the ceremony faults its use of oaths, premature alignment of students and faculty, and the select...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether or not noninvasive assessment of the cardiovascular system can discriminate white coat hypertension and hypertension in postmenopausal women. The major reason is the high prevalence of white coat hypertension in these subjects and the uncertain associations of white coat hypertension with cardiovascular risk. PATIENTS AND METHODS Selected women were required to ...

Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy remain a global medical and social problem, complicating 2–8% of pregnancies associated with high maternal perinatal morbidity mortality. The traditional measurement blood pressure in clinical practice is the most commonly used procedure for diagnosis control treatment hypertension, but it subject to significant inaccuracies caused, on one hand, by inhere...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Poor hypertension control observed in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may in part be due to the suboptimal assessment of BP with clinic BP measurements alone. The goal of this meta-analysis was to estimate the prevalence and determinants of white-coat and masked hypertension in the adult CKD population. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Article...

The aims of this study were to investigate echocardiographic abnormalities in the elderly and to evaluate differences between those who are normotensive and those who have white-coat hypertension or sustained hypertension. The study used data on a subsample of participants in the EPICARDIAN project who came from the Lista district of Madrid, Spain. Of the 271 included, 61 (22.5%) were normotens...

OBJECTIVES To explore the prevalence of various categories of hypertension in diabetic patients, and assess any corresponding associations with end-organ complications. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Tertiary centre of a regional hospital in Hong Kong. PATIENTS All ambulatory type 2 diabetic patients attending our clinics from January 2002 to November 2004 were invited to participa...