English Dictionary

white coat hypertension

名詞

慣用表現 不可算名詞

(medicine, idiomatic) Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.

日本語の意味

医療従事者が血圧を測定する際、患者が医療環境に対する不安や緊張から一時的に血圧が上昇する現象（ホワイトコート高血圧）

Because of white coat hypertension, his blood pressure readings in the clinic were higher than they were at home.

白衣高血圧のため、診療所での血圧測定値は自宅での値よりも高かった。

意味（1）

(medicine, idiomatic) Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.

Patients with white coat hypertension did not show a generalized increase of blood pressure lability, nor an exaggerated pressor response while at work. . . . In such patients, the pressor response may be relatively specific to the physician's office and lead to significant misclassification of hypertension.