Why the study?
What is the prevalence and persistence of the white-coat effect and white-coat hypertension across multiple visits in treated and untreated hypertensive patients?
Population
163 mild-to-moderate essential hypertensive patients, mean age 56 years, 56% males, recruited at hospital or…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1 year
Authors
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White-coat effect common and often persistent; hypothesis-generating for repeated out-of-office monitoring, pending prospective trials.
What is the prevalence and persistence of the white-coat effect and white-coat hypertension across multiple visits in treated and untreated hypertensive patients?
A substantial white-coat effect or white-coat hypertension occurs consistently in a significant proportion of patients across multiple visits, supporting the routine use of out-of-office blood pressure monitoring for diagnosis and treatment adjustment.
Verberk et al. (2006) studied this question.
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