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WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION AND MASKED HYPERTENSION
White Coat Hypertension Review Series, published from 2014 to 2015 in Hypertension Research (HR), featured the White Coat Hypertension, or White Coat Syndrome as its main topic. It is a phenomenon in which patients' blood pressure becomes higher in the clinical or medical environment than in the normal setting. This Web Focus is a collection of review articles that introduce different studies and its suggestions on white coat Hypertension. They are all specially-solicited for this review series.
Review series
Does blood pressure variability contribute to risk stratification? Methodological issues and a review of outcome studies based on home blood pressure
Kei Asayama, Fang-Fei Wei, Yan-Ping Liu, Azusa Hara, Yu-Mei Gu, Rudolph Schutte, Yan Li, Lutgarde Thijs and Jan A Staessen
Hypertension Research (2015) 38, 97-101; doi:10.1038/hr.2014.153; published online 16 October 2014
Prevalence of white-coat and masked hypertension in national and international registries
Manuel Gorostidi, Ernest Vinyoles, José R Banegas and Alejandro de la Sierra
Hypertension Research (2015) 38, 1-7; doi:10.1038/hr.2014.149; published online 16 October 2014
Use of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in the definition of resistant hypertension: a review of the evidence
Alexandre Persu, Eoin O'Brien and Paolo Verdecchia
Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 967-972; doi:10.1038/hr.2014.83; published online 17 April 2014
Significance of white-coat and masked hypertension in chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease
José Boggia, Ricardo Silvariño, Leonella Luzardo and Oscar Noboa
Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 882-889; doi:10.1038/hr.2014.82; published online 17 April 2014
Is white-coat hypertension a harbinger of increased risk?
Anastasios Kollias, Angeliki Ntineri and George S Stergiou
Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 791-795; doi:10.1038/hr.2014.35; published online 6 March 2014
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome as a cause of resistant hypertension
Gianfranco Parati, Juan Eugenio Ochoa, Grzegorz Bilo, Paola Mattaliano, Paolo Salvi, Kazuomi Kario and Carolina Lombardi
Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 601-613; doi:10.1038/hr.2014.80; published online 8 May 2014
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