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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertens Res. 2013 Jun 20;36(11):10.1038/hr.2013.58. doi: 10.1038/hr.2013.58

Table 4.

Adjusted differences in visit-to-visit and 24-hour average real variability of systolic blood pressure (top panel) and diastolic blood pressure (bottom panel) associated with participant characteristics.

Systolic blood pressure
Age, gender, race, ethnicity, and mean SBP adjusted Fully adjusted
ARVVVV β (SE) ARV24 β (SE) ARVVVV β (SE) ARV24 β (SE)
Age, per 10 years 0.34 (0.29) 0.22 (0.19) 0.30 (0.31) 0.19 (0.20)
Men −0.58 (0.59) 0.46 (0.37) −0.57 (0.65) 0.59 (0.40)
Black −0.74 (1.08) −0.74 (0.71) −1.02 (1.15) −0.46 (0.74)
Hispanic 2.32 (1.07)* 0.27 (0.70) 2.40 (1.09)* 0.21 (0.71)
Diabetes status
 Normal fasting glucose 0 (ref) 0 (ref) 0 (ref) 0 (ref)
 Impaired fasting glucose 0.40 (0.56) 0.53 (0.37) 0.38 (0.58) 0.39 (0.37)
 Diabetes 1.47 (1.20) 0.35 (0.79) 1.38 (1.24) −0.13 (0.81)
Abdominal obesity −0.36 (0.60) 0.30 (0.38) −0.64 (0.68) −0.16 (0.42)
Elevated c-reactive protein 0.03 (0.66) 0.89 (0.43)* 0.04 (0.76) 0.98 (0.49)*
Albuminuria, per two fold higher level 0.42 (0.28) 0.31 (0.18) 0.38 (0.29) 0.29 (0.19)
Mean clinic SBP, per 10 mmHg 0.96 (0.28)*** 1.04 (0.30)***
Mean 24-hour SBP, per 10 mmHg 0.55 (0.20)** 0.49 (0.21)*
Diastolic blood pressure
Age, gender, race, ethnicity, and mean SBP adjusted Fully adjusted
ARVVVV ARV24 ARVVVV ARV24
β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE)
Age, per 10 years −0.22 (0.21) 0.09 (0.14) −0.23 (0.22) 0.09 (0.15)
Men 0.22 (0.43) −0.05 (0.29) 0.25 (0.47) 0.11 (0.30)
Black 0.86 (0.80) 0.08 (0.54) 0.84 (0.86) 0.09 (0.58)
Hispanic 0.30 (0.80) 0.31 (0.54) 0.29 (0.83) 0.32 (0.56)
Diabetes status
 Normal fasting glucose 0 (ref) 0 (ref) 0 (ref) 0 (ref)
 Impaired fasting glucose −0.04 (0.43) 0.05 (0.29) −0.02 (0.44) −0.06 (0.30)
 Diabetes 0.98 (0.91) 0.66 (0.62) 1.16 (0.94) 0.35 (0.63)
Abdominal obesity 0.09 (0.45) 0.40 (0.28) 0.29 (0.51) 0.19 (0.32)
Elevated c-reactive protein −0.35 (0.50) 0.58 (0.33) −0.62 (0.58) 0.44 (0.39)
Albuminuria, per two fold higher level 0.0 (0.21) 0.19 (0.14) −0.03 (0.22) 0.16 (0.15)
Mean clinic DBP, per 10 mmHg 0.38 (0.29) 0.35 (0.31)
Mean 24-hour DBP, per 10 mmHg −0.11 (0.19) −0.14 (0.20)
β

(SE) is the difference in the standard deviation (standard error) from linear regression models.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001

SD – standard deviation, SBP – systolic blood pressure

Fully adjusted includes all variables listed.