Key result
White coat hypertension showed similar blood pressure reactivity to stress as persistent hypertension and normotension, but had an intermediate left ventricular mass index between the two groups.
Why the study?
Does white coat hypertension associate with enhanced psychophysiological blood pressure reactivity and cardiac end-organ changes compared to persistent hypertension and normotension?
Observational (n=74)
Does white coat hypertension associate with enhanced psychophysiological blood pressure reactivity and cardiac end-organ changes compared to persistent hypertension and normotension?
White coat hypertension is associated with structural and functional cardiac target organ damage, despite lacking enhanced blood pressure reactivity to mental or physical stress.
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May support cardiac surveillance in white coat hypertension; leaves open mechanisms of intermediate remodeling beyond stress reactivity.
Cardillo et al. (1993) conducted an observational in White coat hypertension (n=74). White coat hypertension vs. Persistent hypertension and normotensive controls was evaluated on Blood pressure reactivity to mental stress and physical exercise, and left ventricular structural and filling abnormalities. White coat hypertension showed similar blood pressure reactivity to stress as persistent hypertension and normotension, but had an intermediate left ventricular mass index between the two groups.
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