(HealthcareItNews.com) — Tarilian Laser Technologies (TLT) has confirmed, from early studies, the ability of its Sapphire sensor technology to detect “white coat” hypertension (WCH) during measurement of blood pressure in a clinical setting.
The Sapphire sensor can create a novel platform from which white coat hypertension can be distinguished from background stress and anomalous baseline variability in blood pressure, officials from the company said in an announcement made Tuesday.
White coat hypertension, which is commonly called white coat syndrome, is the term used to describe the raised blood pressure shown by patients when their blood pressure is measured in a clinical setting that is not shown elsewhere, such as at home.
According to TLT, this raised pressure is significant for medical diagnosis as it may lead to inappropriate management of the hypertensive patient – which increases risk, distress and costs to the healthcare system.
Sandeep Shah, CEO of TLT said, “the new pivotal development further distinguishes the TLT technology from other technologies on the market in that we can further validate potential false positives within the clinical process and avoid the situation where the patient receives unnecessary treatments.”
Until a few years ago, the variability in blood pressure had been dismissed as a ‘background noise’ that dilutes the prognostic effects of average blood pressure. Recent research now indicates that blood pressure variability is in itself an important phenomenon to track and control as it is associated with morbidity and mortality.
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Finally someone came with help to the millions of people who suffer with this problem, now we have to wait for the Doctors to take action about this.
But this is just the beginning we hope for more to come.
I too,like Jose,have had this problem all my life.Sometimes I think that by getting BP so low,it is “too low” and makes me feel like dog ca-ca.I’m glad there is some kind of breakthrough for this syndrome.
This very dangerous and sometimes damaging “white coat effect” is further agitated and aggravated by the simple fact that many (if not most) medical professionals do not trust any info from patient that they have not generated. Patients who are subjected to over medication for BP and who are intelligent enough to know what is happening to them, will rightly develop a well founded fear of Dr BP readings, and the resulting increase in meds that may well be killing them!