Table 2.

Differences between groups regarding vascular stiffness parameters.

Variable	PWV	AIx	cPP	cDBP	cSBP	MAP	DBP	SBP
Sex	0.28	0.41	0.21	0.87	0.30	0.60	0.92	0.82
*BMI	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.17	0.007	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.004	< 0.001
Smoker	0.03	0.02	0.20	0.21	0.07	0.26	0.16	0.45
FHO	< 0.001	0.05	0.40	0.81	0.04	0.06	0.02	0.65
FHD	0.03	0.07	0.43	0.71	0.19	0.09	0.38	0.06
FHC	< 0.001	0.004	0.02	0.005	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.002	< 0.001
Alcohol consumption	0.83	0.59	0.73	0.24	0.43	0.41	0.45	0.69
Sleep (< 7 h/night)	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.03	0.12	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.02	< 0.001
Physical activity (< 150 min/week)	< 0.001	0.001	0.38	0.002	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.001	< 0.001
PHD	< 0.001	0.02	0.17	0.13	0.04	0.03	0.05	0.01

BMI, Body Mass Index; FHO, Family Medical History of Obesity; FHD, Family Medical History of Diabetes; FHC, Family Medical History of Cardiovascular Diseases; SBP, Systolic Blood Pressure; DBP, Diastolic Blood Pressure; MAP, Mean Arterial Pressure; cSBP, Central Systolic Blood Pressure; cDBP, Central Diastolic Blood Pressure; cPP, Central Pulse Pressure; PWV, Pulse Wave Velocity; Aix, Aortic Augmentation Index. Values represent the p-values derived from Mann-Whitney U test; ^*the computed p-values from Kruskal-Wallis test. The bold values p < 0.05 indicates statistical significance.