Prevalence of Masked and White-Coat Hypertension in Pre-Hypertensive and Stage 1 Hypertensive patients with the use of TeleMRPA.
Weimar Kunz Sebba BarrosoAudes Diógenes de Magalhães FeitosaEduardo Costa Duarte BarbosaRoberto Dischinger MirandaAndréa Araújo BrandãoPriscila Valverde Oliveira VitorinoLúcio Paulo de Souza RibeiroMarco Mota GomesPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (2020)
MH and WCH have a high prevalence rate in the adult population; however, in prehypertensive or stage 1 hypertensive patients, the prevalence is higher. Out-of-office BP measurements in these subgroups should be performed whenever possible to prevent misdiagnosis.