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White Coat Hypertension
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White Coat Hypertension
A 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 such

white coat hypertension
Office hypertension A transient ↑ in blood pressure that occurs in apprehensive Pts on seeing a 'white coat', especially if the Pt is ♀ and the doctor ♂, possibly resulting in inappropriate anti-hypertensive therapy. Cf Pseudohypertension, Small cuff syndrome.


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WHITE COAT SYNDROME Doctors are advised to give up their white coats when attending patients.
White coat syndrome specifically occurs to blood pressure levels that spike only when you visit a doctor's office or have your blood pressure measured by a professional member of the medical community.
IF tests have excluded everything else, it is probably White Coat Syndrome - your blood pressure spikes temporarily from anxiety.
 
 
 
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