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. 2013 Sep 26;28(3):150–156. doi: 10.1038/jhh.2013.88

Table 1. Characteristics of 109 patients by level of office systolic pressure.

Baseline characteristic Office systolic blood pressure
  <160 mm Hg 160–179 mm Hg ⩾180 mm Hg
Number of patients 35 33 41
Number (%) with characteristic
 Non-white ethnicity 2 (5.7) 0 (0) 2 (4.9)
 Women 10 (28.6) 11 (33.3) 30 (73.2)‡
 Diabetes mellitus 9 (25.7) 11 (33.3) 8 (19.5)
       
Previous cardiovascular disease
 Coronary heart disease 7 (20.0) 10 (30.3) 8 (19.5)
 Stroke 4 (11.4) 3 (9.1) 2 (4.9)
       
Mean (s.d.) characteristic
 Age, years 57.6±10.8 60.3±11.1 57.1±11.8
 Body mass index, kg m−2 28.1±4.2 30.6±4.5* 29.7±5.2
 Serum creatinine, μmol l−1 92.8±30.8 92.6±23.2 72.0±19.7‡
 eGFR, ml min−1 per 1.73 m−2 76.5±21.9 77.5±22.9 90.9±27.1*

eGFR indicates the glomerular filtration rate estimated from the serum creatinine concentration.13

Significance of the difference with the left adjacent column: *P⩽0.05; ‡P⩽0.001.