TY - JOUR T1 - Hypertension outcomes and cardiovascular status in young adults with childhood-diagnosed white coat hypertension JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313298 SP - archdischild-2017-313298 AU - Maria Westerståhl AU - Maria Forss AU - Lena Persson AU - Karin Bouma AU - Thomas Gustavsson AU - Elke Wühl AU - Rafael T Krmar Y1 - 2017/08/10 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/10/archdischild-2017-313298.abstract N2 - White coat hypertension (WCH) describes untreated subjects displaying elevated blood pressure (BP) in the clinical setting as opposed to normal ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) or BP taken at home.1 Adults with WCH are more likely to progress to sustained hypertension (SH) and to be at increased cardiovascular risk compared with normotensive subjects.2 Since it is unknown whether children with WCH progress to SH,3 we sought to determine hypertension outcomes using ABPM and cardiovascular status in young adults with childhood-diagnosed WCH.In a previous study conducted in Swedish healthy schoolchildren, we identified 56 (3.8%) out of 1470 participants as having WCH, which was defined as systolic and/or diastolic casual BP >95th distribution adjusted height-related and sex-related percentile in three separate visits, but … ER -