Table 3.

Mixed Effects Models Results for BPs According to the Presence of Exaggerated Aortic Stiffness

	PWV at Baseline ≤10 m/s			PWV at Baseline >10 m/s
	Value	SE	P Value	Value	SE	P Value
SBP
(Intercept)	108.148	0.7331	<.001	120.1778	3.1942	<.001
Gender (male)	4.4568	0.2403	<.001	1.4701	0.9392	.12
Age c	0.2095	0.0101	<.001	0.1376	0.049	.005
BMI	0.356	0.0292	<.001	0.0538	0.0985	.59
High BP	22.5232	0.342	<.001	31.0445	1.188	<.001
antiHT	2.4489	0.5173	<.001	−0.1607	1.2062	.89
Time	0.1032	0.0419	.014	−0.1055	0.3661	.77
Time × high BP	−0.0762	0.0862	.38	−0.9055	0.3057	.003
Time × antiHT	−0.5348	0.0931	<.001	−0.3186	0.3113	.31
Age c × time	0.0089	0.0025	<.001	0.0144	0.0144	.32
MBP
(Intercept)	78.2005	0.5026	<.001	87.4365	2.1765	<.001
Gender (male)	2.8203	0.1638	<.001	0.2944	0.6506	.65
Age c	0.1549	0.007	<.001	−0.0308	0.0329	.35
BMI	0.3779	0.02	<.001	0.1799	0.0674	.008
High BP	16.166	0.2402	<.001	19.1756	0.7845	<.001
antiHT	0.848	0.3604	.019	0.1914	0.8024	.81
Time	0.165	0.0299	<.001	0.1128	0.2353	.63
Time × high BP	−0.0203	0.0611	.74	−0.5746	0.1982	.004
Time × antiHT	−0.4681	0.066	<.001	−0.4747	0.2014	.019
Age c × time	0.0015	0.0018	.41	0.007	0.0093	.45
PWV
(Intercept)	469.442	11.036	<.001	1079.324	65.298	<.001
Gender (male)	−3.430	3.535	.33	21.743	18.985	.25
Age c	5.044	0.160	<.001	1.825	1.013	.07
BMI	6.488	0.439	<.001	2.966	2.005	.14
High BP	50.743	5.715	<.001	−7.758	24.767	.75
antiHT	7.835	8.355	.35	−18.893	25.039	.45
Time	10.843	0.745	<.001	−75.097	7.761	<.001
Time × high BP	7.168	1.494	<.001	12.967	6.443	.045
Time × antiHT	0.159	1.622	.92	17.135	6.568	.009
Age c × time	0.167	0.044	<.001	1.503	0.303	<.001

Age c, age at entry; antiHT, antihypertensive medication; BMI, body mass index; SE, standard error.

The models are age-centered and included 15,011 observations from 6001 participants.