A recent study has revealed a little known fact, a fact that may sound funny and surprisizing at the same time. Doctors 'cause blood pressure to rise' ! find it starange, but its true. Popularly known as white collar effect, it refers to sudden increase in patients blood pressure due to patients becoming stressed by being in a doctor's surgery or a hospital.

UK experts said that its better giving cuff to patients for 24 hrs for better monitoring and it clearly shows that expernal factors do affect BP readings.

High blood pressure is a major cause of heart and amd kidney stroke and affects 40% of adults in UK.The research also found a difference in blood pressures to be 17 units if nurses took measurement and 29 units if doctors checked it. Doctors certianly cause more stress in patients, study showed.

Professor Graham MacGregor, chairman of the Blood Pressure Association, said that Many people feel slightly anxious when going to see a doctor, which is why we have always encouraged blood pressure measuring at home as well as in the clinic, and promotes the use of home blood pressure monitors and ambulatory testing where indicated.