White-coat hypertension should not be confused with highnormal blood pressure (the upper
end of prehypertension [Table 2]); however, the distinction is not clear-cut. Indeed, patients …

High blood pressure is the most significant risk factor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular
diseases worldwide. Blood pressure and its variability are recognized as risk factors. Thus …

European Society of Hypertension guidelines for blood pressu... : Journal of Hypertension
European Society of Hypertension guidelines for blood pressure monitoring at home: a …

Day-by-day blood pressure and heart rate variability defined as within-subject SDs of home
measurements can be calculated from long-term self-measurement. We investigated the …

Background The white coat effect (defined as the difference between blood pressure [BP]
measurements taken at the physician's office and those taken outside the office) is an …

Aims/hypothesis This study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of masked nocturnal
hypertension (MNHT) and its impact on arterial stiffness and central blood pressure in …

Background: The relation of masked hypertension to target organ damage has very seldom
been investigated in a general population. Methods: An unselected population cohort (n …

Blood pressure (BP) may be high during usual daily life in one out of 7–8 individuals with
normal BP in the clinic or doctor's office. This condition is usually defined as masked …

The prognostic significance of white-coat hypertension (WCHT) is controversial, and
different findings on self-measured home measurements and 24-h ambulatory monitoring …

We studied 74 never-treated grade I hypertensive subjects aged 18 to 45 years and 20
normotensive control subjects to define the rate of increase in carotid intima-media thickness …