TABLE 4.

Twenty‐four hour (24‐h), awake, asleep, and mean of the first 3 h of ambulatory blood pressures, heart rate and rate‐pressure‐product assessed after the bright light (BL) and dim light (DL) sessions.

	BL	DL	p Value
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)
24‐h	121 ± 9	121 ± 9	0.84
Awake	126 ± 10	126 ± 10	0.82
Asleep	111 ± 8	111 ± 9	0.54
Mean of the first 3 h	131 ± 9	131 ± 10	0.82
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)
24‐h	70 ± 4	71 ± 5	0.88
Awake	75 ± 4	75 ± 5	0.63
Asleep	60 ± 6	61 ± 5	0.06
Mean of the first 3 h	81 ± 6	79 ± 6	0.28
Mean blood pressure (mmHg)
24‐h	87 ± 5	87 ± 5	0.58
Awake	91 ± 5	91 ± 5	0.44
Asleep	77 ± 5	77 ± 5	0.42
Mean of the first 3 h	97 ± 5	96 ± 6	0.17
Heart rate (bpm)
24‐h	71 ± 8	71 ± 7	0.46
Awake	75 ± 6	75 ± 6	0.42
Asleep	61 ± 9	61 ± 8	0.55
Mean of the first 3 h	86 ± 15	79 ± 8	0.07
Rate‐pressure‐product (mmHg × bpm)
24‐h	8541 ± 821	8526 ± 858	0.52
Awake	9462 ± 942	9434 ± 823	0.65
Asleep	6735 ± 868	6592 ± 727	0.47
Mean of the first 3 h	11,117 ± 2055	10,189 ± 1046	0.05

Note: Data are shown as mean ± SD.