everyone I guess can have high blood pressure at some point, but when should you be concerned?

Is it, you know, a certain amount of time that you have that elevated blood pressure?

- Sure, this is a common question that a lot of patients bring about as well because I'm sure that all of us have heard the term white coat hypertension.

So in the traditional sense of white coat hypertension is when your blood pressure is elevated in a provider's office, but it's normal at home.

So the thing to underpin here is that you're checking your blood pressure at home.

So I would encourage everyone to be not just relying on one blood pressure in someone's office, but that's something that you need to keep a track of.

And in white coat hypertension, your blood pressure is absolutely normal at home, and when I say normal, you're looking at an average number.

All of us have emotions so we are not so worried about one blood pressure when we are emotional that is elevated, but where do you typically live at?

That's what's important.

There's actually an opposite entity called a masked hypertension wherein your blood pressure is actually good in a provider's office, but bad at home.

And that's actually worse because your outcomes are as bad as a person with elevated blood pressures.

And when you say who should be worried about, there definitely is a huge context to be placed at socioeconomic factors as well.