BACKGROUND Congenital sensorineural deafness (CSD) is the most common type of deafness in dogs and it occurs in numerous canine breeds including the English bull terrier. This study estimates prevalence, heritability and genetic correlations of CSD and coat pigmentation phenotypes in the English bull terrier in England. RESULTS Hearing status was assessed by brainstem auditory evoked response...

The literature concerning the problem of "white coat" hypertension is reviewed. The diagnosis of such hypertension is important for valid treatment policy in hypertensive patients. This diagnosis is based primarily on the data of 24-h blood pressure monitoring.

The term white coat hypertension (WCH) was initially introduced in 1984 to describe patients who had hypertension in the office but were normotensive with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). At the time, WCH was simply a phenomenon with nothing known about its possible effect on the development of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Three decades later, it is apparent that hypertension in the...

There is arguably no less understood or more intriguing problem in hypertension that the "white coat" condition, the standard concept of which is significantly blood pressure reading obtained by medical personnel of authoritative standing than that obtained by more junior and less authoritative personnel and by the patients themselves. Using hospital-initiated ambulatory blood pressure monitori...