Additional investigations to exclude a secondary cause of hypertension might include:
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides an accurate profile of blood pressure fluctuations over a 24 hour period and control for the 'white coat effect'. For example, they may show the paroxysmal rise in blood pressure associated with phaeochromocytoma.
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