white coat hypertension

See also: white-coat hypertension and whitecoat hypertension

English

Alternative forms

• white-coat hypertension
• whitecoat hypertension

Etymology

From white coat +‎ hypertension. From the stereotypical uniform of a medical practitioner.

Pronunciation

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Noun

white coat hypertension (uncountable)

1. (medicine, idiomatic) Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.

   Synonyms: white coat effect, white coat syndrome, white coat high blood pressure

   • 1988 January 8, T. G. Pickering et al., “How common is white coat hypertension?”, in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):

     Patients with white coat hypertension did not show a generalized increase of blood pressure lability, nor an exaggerated pressor response while at work. . . . In such patients, the pressor response may be relatively specific to the physician's office and lead to significant misclassification of hypertension.

Translations

elevated blood pressure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白大衣高血壓／白大衣高血压 (báidàyī gāoxuèyā)

• Finnish: valkotakkiverenpaine
• French: hypertension de la blouse blanche f