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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Blood Press. 2023 Dec;32(1):2161997. doi: 10.1080/08037051.2022.2161997

Table 2.

Blood pressure measurements.

Entire group Normotensive FF Hypertensive FF
Clinical SBP, mmHg 124.3 (9.9) 114.1 (4.9) 129.4 (7.6)*
Clinical DBP, mmHg 78.1 (6.7) 73.6 (5.3) 80.4 (6.1)*
Ambulatory SBP, mmHg 127.8 (12.1) 120.5 (9.4) 131.4 (11.7)*
Ambulatory DBP, mmHg 77.8 (8.5) 74.4 (7.1) 79.5 (8.7)*
Ambulatory MAP, mmHg 93.5 (9.2) 89.5 (7.5) 95.5 (9.5)*
SBP surge, mmHg 17.1 (12.1) 14.8 (12.1) 18.2 (12.1)
DBP surge, mmHg 10.3 (9.3) 8.4 (7.4) 11.2 (9.9)

FF: firefighter; SBP: systolic; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; MAP: mean arterial pressure.

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

*

Significant at p < .05 between groups.