Table 1.
Frequency and percentage distributions of participants within clinical groups.
| Groups | Count | Percentage | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athlete | 149 | 11.0% | Competitive sports, e.g., basket players, football players, badminton players, cyclists, rowers: Years of intense training and participation to competitions |
| Normal | 547 | 40.5% | Non-smoking subjects without pathologies |
| Obese | 102 | 7.5% | Subjects with BMI ≥ 30 (kg/m2) |
| Stress | 190 | 14.1% | Psychological dimension of stress: Presence/absence of stress according to self-report of participants who asked advice for stress symptoms lasting more than three months, or referral by their physicians |
| Hypertensive (HT) | 271 | 20.0% | Subjects with Systolic BP ≥ 140 mmHg or Diastolic BP ≥ 90 mmHg, or both |
| HT-Obese | 55 | 4.1% | Obese subjects with high BP |
| HT-Stress | 38 | 2.8% | Stressed subjects with high BP |
| Total | 1352 | 100.0% |