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Current status of white coat hypertension: where are we?
Therapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease - 1 Jan 2000
Nuredini Gani, Saunders Alec, Rajkumar Chakravarthi, Okorie Michael
Abstract excerpt
White coat hypertension (WCH) is characterised by an elevated clinic blood pressure (BP) with normal ambulatory or home BP. It is well recognised in clinical practice and occurs in approximately one-third of untreated patients with elevated clinic BP. Current evidence suggests that WCH is associated with cardiovascular risk factors, including the development of sustained hypertension and the presence of target...
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