Pattern of Blood Pressure Indices among the Residents of a Rural Community in South East Nigeria

Table 1

Clinical Characteristics of all the subjects by their hypertensive status.

Variable	Presence of hypertension		𝑃-value∗
	Yes; (𝑛=398)	No; (𝑛=460)
Age (yrs)	61.2 (9.3)	58.6 (10.2)	<0.0001
Height (m)	1.56 (0.08)	1.56 (0.07)	0.779
Weight (kg)	57.6 (13.5)	55.9 (12.9)	0.06
Body mass index (Kg/m^2)	23.6 (5.3)	22.8 (4.6)	0.019
Waist circumference (cm)	85.9 (12.6)	83.5 (12.7)	0.006
Waist to Hip ratio	0.88 (0.07)	0.87 (0.06)	0.011
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	158.4 (19.7)	118.6 (12.8)	<0.0001
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	91.4 (14.1)	70.9 (9.3)	<0.0001
Fasting blood glucose (mmol/L)	4.6 (1.5)	4.6 (1.8)	0.989
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)^†	4.6 (0.8)	4.6 (0.9)	0.972

†The sample sizes of the overall, men, and women groups for total cholesterol estimation were 292 and 301 subjects, respectively. The rest of the subjects had low values (i.e., <3.88 mmol/L) based on the measuring range of the machine. ^∗𝑃 value between hypertensive and non hypertensive subjects.