white coat hypertension
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See also: white-coat hypertension and whitecoat hypertension
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From white coat + hypertension. From the stereotypical uniform of a medical practitioner.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]white coat hypertension (uncountable)
- (medicine, idiomatic) Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.
- 1988 January 8, T. G. Pickering et al., “How common is white coat hypertension?”, in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):
- Patients with white coat hypertension did not show a generalized increase of blood pressure lability, nor an exaggerated pressor response while at work. . . . In such patients, the pressor response may be relatively specific to the physician's office and lead to significant misclassification of hypertension.
Translations
[edit]elevated blood pressure
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