Luisa Ulian

TL;DR: Data indicate that the clinic-daytime average blood pressure difference does not reflect the alerting reaction and the pressure response elicited by the physician's visit and thus is not a reliable measure of the white coat effect.

TL;DR: It is shown that over a 7.5-year period, end-organ damage is independently related to the initial blood pressure variability, and the available data suggest more of an effect on 24-h average blood pressure levels than on24-h blood pressure changes.

TL;DR: The clinic-daytime blood pressure difference has a limited reproducibility; depends not only on clinic but also on daytime average blood pressure, which means that its size is a function of the blood pressure criteria employed for selection of the patients in a trial; and is never associated with a systematic clinic- daytime difference in heart rate.

TL;DR: In this article, the white-coat effect of long-term antihypertensive treatment was investigated in patients with essential hypertension. But the authors focused on the treatment-induced regression of left ventricular hypertrophy.

TL;DR: Multiple blood pressure readings obtained semi-automatically in the outpatient clinics increase blood pressure reproducibility and make the value similar to that obtained by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.