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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2020 Nov 9;77(1):49–58. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15887

Table 2.

Association between baseline orthostatic hypertension and clinical outcomes, stratified by blood pressure treatment group.

Outcomes Intensive treatment group Standard treatment group Interaction
p-value
No
orthostatic
hypertension
Orthostatic
hypertension
HR2
(95% CI3)
p-
value
No orthostatic
hypertension
Orthostatic
hypertension
HR2
(95% CI3)
p-
value
n Event
rate1
n Event
rate1
n Event
rate1
n Event
rate1
Primary outcome 236 1.74 77 2.17 1.44 (1.10-1.87) 0.007 333 2.50 77 2.11 0.90 (0.70-1.16) 0.41 0.01
Components of primary outcome
Myocardial infarction 94 0.68 20 0.55 0.97 (0.60-1.57) 0.90 128 0.95 32 0.86 0.99 (0.67-1.47) 0.98 0.94
Acute coronary syndrome 37 0.27 8 0.22 1.03 (0.48-2.22) 0.95 38 0.28 9 0.24 0.96 (0.46-1.99) 0.90 0.89
Stroke 58 0.42 19 0.53 1.37 (0.80-2.33) 0.25 74 0.54 19 0.51 0.98 (0.59-1.62) 0.93 0.37
Heart failure 70 0.51 27 0.75 1.85 (1.17-2.94) 0.009 93 0.68 20 0.53 0.87 (0.53-1.42) 0.58 0.03
Cardiovascular disease death 36 0.26 19 0.52 2.59 (1.46-4.62) 0.001 72 0.52 15 0.40 0.84 (0.47-1.50) 0.56 0.07
                           
All Cause Mortality 170 1.22 55 1.51 1.48 (1.08-2.01) 0.01 218 1.58 56 1.48 1.01 (0.75-1.36) 0.96 0.08
                           
Kidney outcome (In participants without CKD at baseline) 127 1.33 31 1.17 0.91 (0.60-1.37) 0.64 37 0.38 10 0.36 0.93 (0.46-1.88) 0.84 0.95
Kidney outcome (In participants with CKD at baseline) 13 0.32 4 0.45 1.80 (0.57-5.72) 0.32 18 0.46 1 0.10 0.41 (0.05-3.63) 0.43 0.24
1.

Events rates are measured as % per year

2.

HR: Hazards ratio for orthostatic hypertension, compared to no orthostatic hypertension, CI: Confidence interval

3.

Adjusting gender, race, smoking status, history of cardiovascular disease history, age, statin use, number of antihypertensive drugs, chronic kidney disease, body mass index, baseline seated systolic blood pressures, baseline total and HDL cholesterol, glomerular filtration rate and urine albumin/creatinine ratio