Clinical Study
Pattern of Blood Pressure Indices among the Residents of a Rural Community in South East Nigeria
Table 3
Pearson’s correlation analysis of SBP and DBP with some clinical characteristics.
| Variables | Systolic blood pressure | Diastolic blood pressure | | value | | value |
| Age | 0.05 | 0.321 | −0.235 | <0.0001 | Weight | 0.061 | 0.226 | 0.203 | <0.0001 | BMI | 0.088 | 0.077 | 0.196 | <0.0001 | WC | 0.061 | 0.221 | 0.152 | 0.002 | WHR | −0.08 | 0.110 | −0.024 | 0.634 | SBP | 1 | — | 0.436 | <0.0001 | FBG | −0.047 | 0.348 | 0.039 | 0.434 | TC | 0.087 | 0.135 | 0.061 | 0.295 |
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Significance was 2-tailed.
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