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Descriptor English: Masked Hypertension
Descriptor Spanish: Hipertensión Enmascarada
Descriptor hipertensión latente
Scope note: Fenómeno donde lecturas tomadas de PRESIÓN ARTERIAL se ven incrementadas en ambientes no clínicos (ej., MONITOREO DE PRESIÓN SANGUÍNEA DOMICILIARIA) y que no se replican en entornos clínicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Hipertensão Mascarada
Descriptor French: Hypertension masquée
Entry term(s): Hypertension, Masked
Hypertensions, Masked
Masked Hypertensions
Tree number(s): C14.907.489.861
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059468
Scope note: Phenomenon where increased BLOOD PRESSURE readings taken in non-clinical settings (e.g., HOME BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING) do not replicate in clinical settings.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Hypertension (1978-2011)
Public MeSH Note: 2012
History Note: 2012
DeCS ID: 54537
Unique ID: D059468
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2012/01/01
Date of Entry: 2011/06/24
Masked Hypertension - Preferred
Concept UI M0550240
Scope note Phenomenon where increased BLOOD PRESSURE readings taken in non-clinical settings (e.g., HOME BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING) do not replicate in clinical settings.
Preferred term Masked Hypertension
Entry term(s) Hypertension, Masked
Hypertensions, Masked
Masked Hypertensions



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