Fig. 2.1 Original finger blood pressure and heart rate tracing showing the pressor and tachycardic effects of the physician’s visit in a representative subject. The segment of blood pressure and…

Fig. 6.1 Body mass index, serum total cholesterol, serum triglycerides and serum HDL cholesterol in true normotensive (N), white coat hypertensive (WCH) and true hypertensive (H) subjects of the PAMELA…

Fig. 8.1 Office systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic (D) BP, and heart rate (HR) values at baseline and during antihypertensive drug treatment (1–48 months) in subjects with white coat hypertension…

Fig. 1.1 Original intra-arterial blood pressure recording performed in a patient before, during, and after a 15 min visit by a physician unknown to the patient. Arrows indicate the beginning…

Fig. 5.1 Manifestations of subclinical cardiac organ damage related to hypertension: the association between left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH, upper panel) and diastolic dysfunction (lower panel) Several methods characterized by different…

Fig. 7.1 Cardiovascular (CV) morbid and fatal events in normotension, white coat hypertension, and true hypertension with effective or noneffective (dippers and non-dippers) blood pressure reductions at night (From Verdecchia…

Fig. 4.1 Timing of the maximal increase in both systolic and diastolic finger blood pressure during the physician’s visit. Vertical bars indicate number of subjects showing a maximal blood pressure…

Fig. 3.1 Plots showing mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) in normotensive (NT), moderate hypertensive (MH), and severe essential hypertensive (EH) subjects. Data…