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Hipertensão Do Avental Branco: Conceituação, Significado Epidemiológico E Clínico White Coat Hypertension: Concept and Epidemiological and Clinical Meaning

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT Mental and emotional stress have become part of everyone´s life nowadays. However, this may overload the sympathetic nervous system leading to higher levels of blood pressure. Situations that seem to pose low levels of stress as a visit to one´s physician, for example, may result in an event known as the White Coat Hypertension (WCH). Events like these may increase the secretion of adrenaline causing neurogenical blood constriction as well as facilitating the release of norepinephrine into the blood stream resulting in high blood pressure. In spite of not being so intense as in essential hypertension, the WCH sympathetic overactivity should not be regarded as an intermediary event between normotension and sustained hypertension.

Source: Revista da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Sorocaba

Authors: Rafael Rafaini Lloret, Débora Yumi Murakami, Hudson Hübner França

Institution: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Language: Portuguese

Topic: Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1600525863

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