white-coat hypertension

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   temporary rise in blood pressure in the doctor's office

   Broaderhigh blood pressure

Questions about white-coat hypertension

What does white-coat hypertension mean?

white-coat hypertension means "temporary rise in blood pressure in the doctor's office".

Is white-coat hypertension a common word?

white-coat hypertension is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.