(Diabetes.co.uk) — Recent findings from a study in Spain showed that up to a third of patients may suffer from what has been termed ‘white coat syndrome’. The term has been coined to describe people who register high blood pressure readings as a result of the stress in having their blood pressure measured by a health professional.
A standard blood pressure reading involves a patient having a blood pressure measuring sleeve placed around their arm, which is inflated to a particular pressure and then the pressure of the sleeve released. The sleeve is then able to measure the person’s blood pressure at the particular moment of time, a few seconds, when the sleeve is fully inflated.
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I have suffered from high blood pressure for many years. With careful diet, lots of exercise, and retirement from stressful jobs, my blood pressure is now under control. However, I now suffer from a very rare malady: reverse white coat syndrome. I get lower readings at my doctor’s office than at other places, such as at the gym or at the drug store, etc.
My jokes about reverse white coat syndrome are probably raising the blood pressure of my doctor and his nursing staff though.
In some circumstances, having a reverse white coat syndrome is much better, coz at least it saves the organ tissues such as kidney, heart from malfunction after having high tension. Of course you have to maintain it at certain save level or you may exercise more.
Its true that the stress that follows after test raises pressure.I have experienced this & it always gets worst when I hear of bloodpressure related fatalities
Without fail my BP readings at the surgery are very high and attributed to the white coat syndrome. To overcome the problem I take a series of readings at home a week or so before I attend the surgery. These are recorded and I take a copy of my record to the surgery. I also take my bp machine. My machine corroborates the readings at the surgery and they all but dismiss them relying on my readings taken up to a week before.
I refuse to allow any medical personnel to take my bp because I feel its bad for my health to have my systolic rise so high with the white coat hypertension. I monitor it at home and take in my readings, so far no one has argued with me 🙂
usefull information.