TABLE 2.

Reproducibility of the dipper vs non‐dipper classification in patients with diabetes

Dippers	SBP				DBP
	n	%	Agreement (%)	Kappa	n	%	Agreement (%)	Kappa
1st recording	32	41			34	52.3
2nd recording	29	43.9	66.1	0.3	35	53	69.2	0.38
3rd recording	19	29.2	76.6	0.48	34	52.3	71.8	0.44
4th recording	19	31.7	54.2	0.02	30	50	57.6	0.15
Mean	19	26.4	67.6	0.28	37	51.4	66.2	0.32

Abbreviations: DBP, Diastolic blood pressure; SBP, Systolic blood pressure.