BACKGROUND: The prevalence of @entity19430 in the Zimbabwean African female population has not been well defined. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of @entity19430 and to compare the cardiovascular risk profiles of those with @entity19430 to those with sustained @entity101 . DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SETTING: Out @entity1 department of Parirenyatwa Medical School Teaching Hospital, Harare, Zimbabwe. SUBJECTS: Females with an average blood pressure of 140-160/90-105 mmHg. INTERVENTIONS: Females with an average blood pressure of 140-160/90-105 mmHg wore 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitors (ABPM). Subjects with >20 mmHg systolic or >10 mmHg diastolic difference between the average out- @entity1 blood pressure and the average awake blood pressure from the ABPM were labelled as white coat @entity101 . RESULTS: The prevalence of @entity19430 was 38% and the average number of risk factors per @entity1 for the white coat group was 2.9. This result was similar to that for the sustained @entity101 group which had an average of 3.1 risk factors per @entity1 . CONCLUSION: @entity19430 may be a common finding in black @entity101 Zimbabwean females who have out @entity1 blood pressure measurements of 140-160/90-105 mmHg. The cardiovascular risk profile of these white coat @entity101 was found to be very similar to that of sustained @entity101 .

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@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patient'] @entity19430 :: ('MESH:D059466', 'Disease') :: ['white coat hypertension', 'White coat hypertension'] @entity101 :: ('MESH:D006973', 'Disease') :: ['hypertensives', 'hypertension', 'hypertensive']
@entity19430 :: (MESH:D059466,Disease) :: ['White coat hypertension']
