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> Your blood pressure reading on the day of a doctor's appointment, right after you've driven to the appointment, made your way through the intake pipeline, and
by ipqk 3y ago
> Your blood pressure reading on the day of a doctor's appointment, right after you've driven to the appointment, made your way through the intake pipeline, and finally sat down in the chair, is not representative of its reading during a typical day in your life.
This is a known thing called White Coat Syndrome
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- Gibbon1 3y agoThat's actually different. The stress of being at the doctors causes blood pressure to elevate vs more mundane things like running, walking, driving stress. The difference is someone without white coat syndrome will have a lower blood pressure reading at the end of the doctors visit.
- pixl97 3y agoHonestly I think in most US cities the driving stress would drive ones BP far higher. I know one time just right before I got to the Drs office some one almost ran into me, I mean just missed, and my BP was way high still.