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White coat hypertension (WHT), also known as white coat syndrome, is a form of labile hypertension [1] in which people exhibit a blood pressure level above the normal range in a clinical setting, although they do not exhibit it in other settings. [2] It is believed that the phenomenon is due to anxiety experienced during a clinic visit. [3]
White Coat Syndrome: occurs in situations when people are anxious with their visit to the doctor or General Practitioner (GP) which can elevate blood pressure readings. [ 7 ] Pheochromocytoma : Normally, in a healthy person, the non-cancerous tumour that is present in the adrenal gland is responsible for releasing hormones that can cause the ...
Verdecchia P, Reboldi GP, Angeli F, Schillaci G, Schwartz JE, Pickering TG, Imai Y, Ohkubo T, Kario K. Short- and long-term incidence of stroke in white-coat hypertension. Hypertension 2005;45(2):203-208; Pickering T, Schwartz JE, Verdecchia P, Imai Y, Kario K. An international database of prospective ambulatory blood pressure monitoring studies.
Summer 2023 saw record-breaking heat, and, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 90% of the 120,000 heat-related emergency room visits in the United States last year took ...
In recent media reports, mycoplasma pneumonia has been described as “white lung syndrome,” due to the whitening of the lungs shown in x-rays of patients with pneumonia, NBC reports. The term ...
Fear of doctors for adults can be extreme. Avoidance of visiting a doctor can lead to problems with not only short term but also long-term health. There is a medical condition called white coat hypertension that deals with the raising of high blood pressure while in the presence of doctors. [17]
Called multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS), this rare condition sets off severe inflammation in different parts of the body and can lead to critical health problems, long-term complications ...
Superior mesenteric artery compressing the duodenum, featuring the superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a gastro-vascular disorder in which the third and final portion of the duodenum is compressed between the abdominal aorta (AA) and the overlying superior mesenteric artery.