White coat hypertension

Description

Persistently elevated office blood pressure readings with persistently normal out-of-the-office readings.

Coding note from above levels

This category is to be used to record an episode of elevated blood pressure in a patient in whom no formal diagnosis of hypertension has been made, or as an isolated incidental finding.

Index terms

White coat hypertension
white coat syndrome

Exclusions from above levels

19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

MC80.01 – Combined diastolic and systolic elevated blood pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
MC80.02 – Diastolic elevated blood pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
MC80.03 – Systolic elevated blood pressure reading without diagnosis of hypertension
MC80.0Y – Other specified elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension
MC80.0Z – Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension, unspecified

Foundation entity

White coat hypertension – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/461779987

Part of: MC80.0: Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension › MC80: Abnormal blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension or hypotension › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified