Table 6.

Diastolic blood pressures (mean ± SD, mmHg) of the two groups of patients at various time points of the surgery

Time points Post initiation of ablation	Control Group	Experimental Group	p-value a
Before Surgery	74.40 ± 8.65	72.50 ± 8.95	0.283
Before initiation of ablation	76.98 ± 8.22c	74.10 ± 10.74d	0.610
0.5 min	79.30 ± 9.25c	75.9 ± 9.76d	0.688
1.5 min	79.08 ± 10.20c	78.52 ± 10.46d	0.880
2.5 min	81.62 ± 11.83c	78.42 ± 9.94d	0.893
3.5 min	80.98 ± 12.03c	77.14 ± 9.39d	0.822
	82.15 ± 11.04c	78.27 ± 9.28d	0.708
5.5 min	82.11 ± 11.16c	76.00 ± 8.32d	0.235
5 min after surgery	76.74 ± 7.99	73.96 ± 7.92	0.548
p-value	< 0.001	< 0.001	–

^aComparison between groups; ^bComparison within groups; ^cCompared to Control Group before surgery, and the p-values were < 0.05. ^dCompared to Experimental Group before surgery, and the p-values were < 0.05