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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2007 Nov 19;50(6):1026–1032. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.097667

Table 2.

Unadjusted and adjusted association between remote and concurrent blood pressure changes and the rate of change in the functional measures.

Functional measure Rate of change (β) in functional measure during the study period
Unadjusted Adjusted*
Remote SBP Change Concurrent SBP change Remote SBP change Concurrent SBP change
β P β P β P β P
Nagi scale −3.4 ± 0.7 <0.0001 −0.9 ± 0.6 0.14 −1.3 ± 0.6 0.044 −1.2 ± 0.6 0.038
Rosow-Breslaw scale −0.8 ± 0.1 <0.0001 −0.2 ± 0.1 0.03 −0.3 ± 0.1 0.017 −0.3 ± 0.1 0.018
ADL Katz scale −0.7 ± 0.1 <0.0001 −0.3 ± 0.1 0.07 −0.3 ± 0.1 0.02 −0.5 ± 0.2 0.002
Remote DBP Change Concurrent DBP change Remote DBP change Concurrent DBP change
Nagi scale −5.3 ± 1.1 <0.0001 −1.1 ± 0.8 0.15 −1.7 ± 1.1 0.10 −1.1 ± 0.8 0.19
Rosow-Breslaw scale −1.3 ± 0.2 <0.0001 −0.2 ± 0.1 0.19 −0.07 ± 0.2 0.73 −0.2 ± 0.2 0.24
ADL Katz scale −0.9 ± 0.2 <0.0001 −0.3 ± 0.2 0.10 0.1 ± 0.2 0.5 −0.2 ± 0.2 0.20

SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure. ADL: activities of daily living

*

: Covariates include: age, gender, race, BMI, education level, smoking status, physical activity, diabetes mellitus, arthritis and cardiovascular disease

: β is the slope of change in functional measure per 10 mm Hg change in systolic or diastolic blood pressure