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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2014 Dec 10;232(11):2017–2028. doi: 10.1007/s00213-014-3832-7

Table 1. Physiological effects of placebo and 7 mg nicotine patch.

± symbols represent the standard error of the mean.

Measure Placebo, Pretreatment Placebo, 60 m Posttreatment Nicotine, Pretreatment Nicotine, 60 m Posttreatment
Systolic BP (mmHg) 128 ± 3.83 121± 3.28 127 ± 3.05 125 ± 2.36
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 79.0 ± 1.97 77.2 ± 2.20 78.9 ± 1.76 79.7 ± 1.84
Heart rate (bpm) 74.8 ± 2.66 72.8 ± 3.16 76.4 ± 2.65 77.3 ± 2.85

Abbreviations: BP = blood pressure, mmHg = mm of mercury, bpm = beats per minute.