Table 3.

Association between personality traits, white coat and masked hypertension phenomena in the full sample and those who did or did not report taking antihypertensive medications.

Variable	Total OR (95%CI)	No medication OR (95%CI)	Medication OR (95%CI)
	White Coat Effect 229/1811	White Coat Hypertension 128/1582	Pseudo- Resistant hypertension due to white coat effect 101/229
N1: Anxiety	0.96 (0.80–1.15)	0.81 (0.64–1.03)	1.39 (1.01–1.91)*
N: Neuroticism	0.86 (0.71–1.04)	0.81 (0.63–1.03)	1.02 (0.75–1.41)
E: Extraversion	0.96 (0.79–1.16)	0.91 (0.71–1.17)	1.02 (0.76–1.39)
O: Openness	0.92 (0.77–1.12)	0.81 (0.63–1.04)	1.11 (0.82–1.50)
A: Agreeableness	1.11 (0.92–1.33)	1.03 (0.82–1.30)	1.26 (0.93–1.72)
C: Conscientiousness	1.04 (0.86–1.25)	1.04 (0.83–1.31)	1.01 (0.74–1.40)
cases/N	Masked phenomenon 443/1811	Masked Hypertension 355/1582	Masked Uncontrolled Hypertension 88/229
N1: Anxiety	1.08 (0.95–1.22)	1.07 (0.93–1.22)	1.02 (0.72–1.43)
N: Neuroticism	1.00 (0.88–1.14)	1.03 (0.90–1.18)	0.82 (0.58–1.15)
E: Extraversion	0.93 (0.82–1.06)	0.94 (0.82–1.08)	0.94 (0.68–1.29)
O: Openness	0.99 (0.87–1.11)	1.00 (0.88–1.15)	0.89 (0.64–1.23)
A: Agreeableness	1.09 (0.96–1.23)	1.14 (0.99–1.30)	0.84 (0.60–1.17)
C: Conscientiousness	1.00 (0.89–1.13)	1.05 (0.92–1.19)	0.70 (0.49–0.99)*

Notes. OR (95%CI) = Odds ratio (95% Confidence Interval) from logistic regressions adjusted for age, sex, education, antihypertensive medications (in the total sample), season, time interval, cigarette smoking, BMI, and personality test administration. Medication refers to antihypertensive. The Ns refer to the total sample in the analyses, which compared individuals with BP in the normal range to cases (white coat or masked phenomena groups).

^*p < 0.05.