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Table 3 Baseline demographics of control and hypertension participants

From: Ultrasound entropy may be a new non-invasive measure of pre-clinical vascular damage in young hypertensive patients

 

Controls

Hypertension

p value

Number

26

42

-

Age (years)

39

45

0.061

Sex (%female)

66.6

69.1

0.488

Body mass index (kgm−2)

24.6 (0.7)

28.3 (1.1)

0.013

Weight (kg)

72.6 (2.8)

86.3 (3.3)

0.005

Current cigarette smoking (%)

0

7.3

0.000

Heart rate (beats min−1)

62 (1)

64 (0.75)

0.057

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

116 (2)

142 (2)

0.000

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)

69 (1)

92 (2)

0.000

Fasting glucose (mmol/l)

4.5 (0.211)

5.1 (0.16)

0.062

Total cholesterol (mmol/l)

4.8 (0.80)

5.2 (0.75)

0.045

HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)

1.6 (0.09)

2.7 (1.26)

0.496

LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)

2.7 (0.15)

3.0 (0.13)

0.133

Total cholesterol:HDL ratio

3.1 (0.23)

3.9 (0.23)

0.015

Triglyceride (mmol/l)

0.9 (0.12)

1.5 (0.15)

0.005

Proportion with eGFR >60 (l/min/1.73 m2)

100

100

1.000

  1. Values are expressed as mean (standard error of the mean). HDL = high density lipoprotein; LDL = low density lipoprotein; eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate.