white coat hypertension en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From white coat + hypertension, due to the typical uniform of a medical practitioner.
Meanings
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(idiomatic, uncountable) Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.
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.
1988 January 8, T. G. Pickering et al., “How common is white coat hypertension?”, in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):
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Synonyms
white coat syndrome · white coat effect · white coat high blood pressure
Translations (6)
ru гипертензи́я «бе́лых хала́тов» (elevated blood pressure) · fi valkotakkiverenpaine (elevated blood pressure) · cmn 白大衣高血壓 /白大衣高血压 (elevated blood pressure) · fr hypertension de la blouse blanche (elevated blood pressure) · ru синдром «белого халата» (elevated blood pressure) · pl efekt białego fartucha (elevated blood pressure)