White-Coat and Masked Hypertension Are Associated With Carotid Atherosclerosis in a General Population The Hisayama Study

On the basis of combined measurements of clinic blood pressure (CBP) and home blood pressure (HBP), blood pressure status can be divided into normotension, white-coat hypertension (WCHT), masked hypertension (MHT), and sustained hypertension (SHT). Despite the clear impact of MHT and SHT on clinical and subclinical arterial disease, uncertainty about the influence of WCHT remains. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations of WCHT, MHT, and SHT with carotid atherosclerosis in a general population. This is a cross-sectional survey of 2915 community-dwelling Japanese aged ≥ 40 years. Normotension was defined as CBP