White-coat Hypertension on Automated Blood Pressure Measurement: Implications for Clinical Practice

White-coat hypertension is a condition in which an individual is hypertensive during repeated blood pressure measurement in the clinical setting, but blood pressure measured outside the medical environment by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring or self blood pressure measurement at home are normal. With the increasing availability of ambulatory techniques many physicians are faced with the diagnosis of white-coat hypertension. The aim of this review is to summarise the current literature on white-coat hypertension on ambulatory monitoring and self blood pressure measurement at home.