Explaining gender differences in the white coat effect

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Streitel, Katherine L ^a   Graham, Jennifer E ^a   Pickering, Thomas G ^b   Gerin, William ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

ambulatory blood pressure; blood pressure; gender; sex; socioeconomic status; state anxiety; white coat effect; white coat hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 78751644719     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e32833f56c2     Document Type: Article

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