What is white coat hypertension?
What is white coat hypertension?
Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, chief medical officer for prevention at the American Heart Association, explains why your blood pressure numbers might be higher in the doctor’s office. Home monitoring can help detect high blood pressure.
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0 -> - It's called white coat hypertension
3.25 -> and so one of the reasons
4.98 -> that home blood pressure
monitoring is so important,
7.87 -> I think this is an important
thing for viewers to hear,
11.41 -> is that that home blood pressure is meant
15.29 -> to try to reflect what
really might be going on
19.43 -> because that blood pressure
in the office may be elevated
22.76 -> because you have white coat hypertension
25.63 -> and in fact, the recommendation to doctors
29.3 -> is if you, for example,
were to come in and say,
32.337 -> "Oh, I was at my local
pharmacy and at the kiosk
35.22 -> and I checked my blood
pressure and it was elevated."
37.96 -> One of the ways that we confirm that,
40.18 -> 'cause no doctor's gonna take action
42.45 -> based on one single blood pressure reading
44.94 -> is to provide you a home
blood pressure monitor
48.72 -> either that you borrow or you buy
50.59 -> and then you follow that protocol
52.38 -> to confirm elevated blood
pressure or just establish
56.34 -> maybe you also had a white
coat hypertension version
59.8 -> because you were at the
kiosk at the pharmacy.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1CDWk-6I6Q