Elevated office and normal out-of-office blood pressure (BP), as assessed by home or ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) measurements, defines the white coat hypertension (WCH) pattern; vice versa, the combination of normal office and elevated out-of-office BP identifies the so-called masked hypertension (MH). In both cases, the classification of BP status by office measurements is not confirmed outside the medical environment; both WCH and MH are frequent conditions in the general population and represent a relevant issue in clinical practice. In this chapter we will focus on several aspects concerning WCH and MH such as diagnostic criteria, prevalence, reproducibility, association with cardiac and extra-cardiac subclinical damage and prognostic significance
Cuspidi, C., Sala, C., Tadic, M., Grassi, G. (2018). White Coat and Masked Hypertension. In A.E. Berbari, G. Mancia (a cura di), Disorders of Blood Pressure Regulation (pp. 599-612). Cham : Springer [10.1007/978-3-319-59918-2_35].
White Coat and Masked Hypertension
Cuspidi, C;Grassi, G
2018
Abstract
Elevated office and normal out-of-office blood pressure (BP), as assessed by home or ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) measurements, defines the white coat hypertension (WCH) pattern; vice versa, the combination of normal office and elevated out-of-office BP identifies the so-called masked hypertension (MH). In both cases, the classification of BP status by office measurements is not confirmed outside the medical environment; both WCH and MH are frequent conditions in the general population and represent a relevant issue in clinical practice. In this chapter we will focus on several aspects concerning WCH and MH such as diagnostic criteria, prevalence, reproducibility, association with cardiac and extra-cardiac subclinical damage and prognostic significance
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