white coat hypertension

• white-coat hypertension
• whitecoat hypertension

white coat +‎ hypertension. From the stereotypical uniform of a medical practitioner.

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white coat hypertension (uncountable)

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.

   Synonyms: white coat effect, white coat syndrome, white coat high blood pressure

   • 1988 January 8, T. G. Pickering et al., “How common is white coat hypertension?”, in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):

     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.