Health Care : Current Reviews

White coat hypertension may actually be an acute phase reactant in the body

Joint Event on 3^rd International Conference on Medical Sciences, Hypertension and Healthcare and World Congress on Organ Transplantation and Artificial Organs

August 24-25, 2018 Tokyo, Japan

Mehmet Rami Helvaci

Marmara University, Turkey

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Health Care Current Reviews

Abstract:

This study tried to understand significance of White Coat Hypertension (WCH), clinically. We have selected patients with underweight in the first phase and age-matched consecutive patients with normal weight, overweight and obesity were taken in the second phase into the study. Although we were able to detect 50 cases in the underweight group with a mean age of 24.7 years, we were only able to detect nine age-matched cases in the obesity group, thus the obesity group was not taken for comparison. There were gradual and statistically significant increases in the prevalence of WCH, beside the gradual and significant decreases in the sustained Normotension (NT) from the underweight towards the normal weight and overweight groups. Eventually, only 31.8% of the overweight cases have sustained NT although the very young mean age of them. Due to the gradually increased prevalence of WCH from the underweight towards the normal weight and overweight groups, the very low prevalence of sustained NT in the overweight group although the very young mean age of them and the already known increased prevalence of hypertension, impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, type-2 diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperbetalipoproteinemia, dyslipidemia, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cirrhosis, chronic renal disease and stroke, and an increased all-cause mortality rate in the same direction, WCH may actually be an acute phase reactant mainly alarming overweight, obesity and many associated health problems in future.

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E-mail: mramihelvaci@hotmail.com