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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 3.

Blood pressure by occupational condition.

Entire group Normotensive FF Hypertensive FF
Apparatus SBP, mmHg 135.9 (12.2) 130.8 (13.9) 138.1 (10.9)
Apparatus DBP, mmHg 81.8 (10.2) 78.0 (8.5) 83.4 (10.6)
Medical call SBP, mmHg 141.9 (13.2) 131.0 (9.9) 145.6 (12.2)*
Medical call DBP, mmHg 84.9 (11.1) 78.1 (9.1) 87.2 (10.9)*
Fire call SBP, mmHg 138.4 (18.7) 132.6 (18.0) 141.8 (18.3)*
Fire call DBP, mmHg 83.7 (12.2) 80.5 (10.6) 85.6 (12.7)
Pre-alert SBP, mmHg 137.4 (10.5) 129.0 (6.9) 139.2 (10.4)
Pre-alert DBP, mmHg 83.3 (8.2) 85.6 (9.1) 82.8 (8.2)

FF: firefighter; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure. Data are presented as mean (SD) for 111 total firefighters; 37 normotensive, 74 hypertensive.

*

Significant at p < .05 between groups.