Clinical implications of white-coat effect among patients attending at a lipid clinic

Our findings show that among patients attending at a Lipid Clinic there is a high prevalence of WCE, which is roughly halved when nurse's BP measurements were considered. Nurse's BP measurements before or after the doctor's visit may reduce, but not eliminate at all, the clinic overestimation of BP. The WCE associated with physician's office visit carries a substantial probability of 10-year CV risk overestimation in the primary prevention setting.