What Is White Coat Syndrome?
3. Masked Hypertension
Another condition that affects the patient’s blood pressure when seeing a doctor is masked hypertension. It is quite the opposite of white coat syndrome in that it causes patients with a high blood pressure to have a lower than usual blood pressure. It means that a high blood pressure in day to day life can go undiagnosed.
Masked hypertension tends to occur in people that usually find themselves in more stressful surroundings. Thus, when they do visit the relatively relaxing doctor’s surgery, their blood press can fall as a result. That hypertension is not diagnosed means the patient is more likely to develop potentially serious complications.
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