TABLE 7.
Reproducibility of the day‐to‐night percentage change in BP in patients with hypertension: SBP daytime > 135mmHG
| Nocturnal fall in blood pressure (% of daytime value) | SBP | DBP | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Sd | ICC | Correlation | Repeatability | Mean | Sd | ICC | Correlation | Repeatability | |
| 1st recording | 11.1 | 9.27 | 0.562 | 14.58 | 11.35 | 0.604 | ||||
| 2nd recording | 7.98 | 9.12 | 0.631 | 40.8 | 12.1 | 11.66 | 0.682 | 39.1 | ||
| 3rd recording | 9.67 | 9.97 | 0.528 | 48.6 | 14.4 | 10.9 | 0.472 | 51.3 | ||
| 4th recording | 9.44 | 10.12 | 0.631 | 42.6 | 14.24 | 10.69 | 0.651 | 42.9 | ||
| Mean | 8.22 | 8.7 | 0.709 | 38 | 13 | 10.11 | 0.678 | 39.7 | ||
Abbreviations: DBP, Diastolic blood pressure; ICC, Intraclass correlation coefficient; SBP, Systolic blood pressure; SD, Standard deviation.