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White coat hypertension in two adolescents

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 We describe two adolescent boys with white coat hypertension. Both patients had significantly high blood pressure documented on more than three occasions at clinic. No cause for hypertension or target organ damage was demonstrated. Twenty-four-hour mean ambulatory blood pressure values were normal for height and sex, which led to the diagnosis.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan e-mail: awazu@mc.med.keio.ac.jp, Tel.: +81-3-3353-1211, Fax: +81-3-5379-1978, , , , , , JP

    Yoshio Yamaguchi, M. Awazu, Seiji Matsuoka, Jun Maeda, Mitsuaki Tokumura, Yoshifumi Kojima & Nobutake Matsuo

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  1. Yoshio Yamaguchi
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Received: 16 February 1998 / Revised: 10 June 1998 / Accepted: 10 June 1998

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Yamaguchi, Y., Awazu, M., Matsuoka, S. et al. White coat hypertension in two adolescents. Pediatr Nephrol 13, 60–62 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004670050564

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