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Published in final edited form as: Blood Press. 2023 Dec;32(1):2161997. doi: 10.1080/08037051.2022.2161997

Table 1.

Firefighter characteristics.

	Entire group	Normotensive FF	Hypertensive FF
Age (years)	40.5 (12.6)	37.1 (13.7)	42.1 (11.9)
# years as FF	17.3 (11.7)	16.1 (11.4)	17.9 (11.9)
Height (cm)	175.0 (7.4)	172.6 (7.5)	176.2 (7.2)^*
Weight (kg)	91.3 (14.6)	82.1 (13.4)	95.8 (13.1)^*
BMI (kg·m⁻²)	30.2 (4.6)	27.9 (4.1)	31.2 (4.3)^*
# BP measures	26.4 (9.5)	25.8 (9.2)	26.7 (9.6)

FF: firefighter; BMI: body mass index;

#BP measures: # blood pressure measurements collected.

Data are presented as mean (SD) for 111 total firefighters; 37 normotensive, 74 hypertensive.

^*

Significant at p < .05 between groups.