Prognosis of “Masked” Hypertension and “White-Coat” Hypertension Detected by 24-h Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

We sought to investigate the prognosis in subjects with “white-coat” hypertension (WCHT) and “masked” hypertension (MHT), in which blood pressure (BP) is lower in clinical measurements than during ambulatory monitoring. The prognostic significance of WCHT remains controversial, and little is known about MHT. We obtained 24-h ambulatory BP and “casual” BP (i.e., obtained in clinical scenarios) values from 1,332 subjects (872 women, 460 men) ≥40...