"The importance of white coat hypertension rests on a curious haemodynamic phenomenon, which has quite profound clinical relevance: patients—let us call them people, because they may not be ill—who appear to have hypertension when their blood pressure is measured by the traditional Riva-Rocci/KorotkoV method, have normal blood pressures when ambulatory techniques are used to record their blood pressures away from the medical environment. Put another way, conventional blood pressure measurement is misleading in people with white coat hypertension (and most of us have some degree of white coat reaction), and if decisions are based on these measurements inappropriate diagnosis and treatment may result."
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