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. 2012 Sep 27;7(9):e46142. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046142

Table 5. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) during harvest and non-harvest periods in 28 participants.

Variables Periods (mean±SDa) Paired t test Multiple analysisb
Harvest Non-harvest p-value RC (95%CI)c p-value
24 h ABPM d
SBP e (mmHg) 120.1±10.3 117.0±10.0 0.110 3.69 (0.27; 7.11) 0.034
MBP f(mmHg) 86.8±9.4 84.4±8.6 0.103 2.95 (0.15; 5.75) 0.039
24 h ECG-HRV g
SDNN h (ms i ) 187.1±37.7 178.6±40.5 0.030 5.81 (−2.77; 14.39) 0.184
SDANN j (ms) 161.6±30.4 149.0±34.0 0.006 11.22 (2.40; 20.03) 0.013
RMSSD k (ms) 47.5±19.1 47.6±19.4 0.957 −2.52 (−7.19;2.15) 0,290
a

: standard deviation;

b

: multiple analysis adjusted for age, body mass index and smoking;

c

: regression coefficient and 95% confidence interval;

d

: Twenty-four-hour Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring;

e

: Systolic blood pressure;

f

: Mean blood pressure;

g

: Twenty-four-hour electrocardiogram-heart rate variability;

h

: standard deviation of normal RR intervals;

i

: milliseconds;

j

: Standard Deviation of Sequential Five-Minute R-R Interval Means;

k

: root mean square of successive differences in adjacent NN intervals.