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Table 2 Blood pressure profiles of diabetic patients, overweight subjects and healthy controls

From: Prehypertension in adolescents with cardiovascular risk: a comparison between type 1 diabetic patients and overweight subjects

Variables

Diabetics

Obese subjects

p value

Healthy controls

p value

24 h Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) (M ± SD)

123.9 ± 11

125.2 ± 8

ns

116.1 ± 6.5

<0.001

24 h Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) (M ± SD)

73.2 ± 8.3

74.4 ± 8.1

ns

68.3 ± 4.6

<0.01

Day-time Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) (M ± SD)

125 ± 11.4

127.2 ± 8.4

ns

119.5 ± 6.3

<0.01

Night-time Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) (M ± SD)

120.3 ± 12.2

118.8 ± 10.8

ns

110.5 ± 8.9

<0.001

Day-time Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) (M ± SD)

75.7 ± 9.9

76.9 ± 9.1

ns

72.3 ± 5.5

<0.05

Night-time Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) (M ± SD)

69.1 ± 8.7

67.8 ± 8.9

<0.001

62.6 ± 5.9

<0.001

Dipper (n)

8 (16.7 %)

18 (37.5 %)

<0.05

32 (66.7 %)

<0.001

Nondipper (n)

40 (83.3 %)

33 (68.8 %)

ns

16 (33.3 %)

<0.001

Hypertension (n)

12 (25 %)

10 (20.8 %)

ns

0

<0.001

Hypertension + nondipper (n)

4 (8.3 %)

3 (6.2 %)

ns

0

<0.05