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office hypertension white coat hypertensionfrequent or continuous elevations of blood pressure in clinical settings that exceed those measured during ambulatory monitoring of the patient. Synonym(s): office hypertensionA transient increase in blood pressure that occurs in apprehensive patients on seeing a ‘white coat’, especially if the patient is female and the doctor male. This may result in mislabelling the patient as having hypertension and treating as suchoffice hypertension See White coat HTN. white coat hy·per·ten·sion (wīt kōt hī'pĕr-ten'shŭn) Frequent or continuous elevations of blood pressure in clinical settings that exceed those measured during ambulatory monitoring of the patient.
Synonym(s): office hypertension. |