Clinical Study
Association between Taste Sensitivity and Self-Reported and Objective Measures of Salt Intake among Hypertensive and Normotensive Individuals
Table 1
Sociodemographic and clinical profile.
| | | Total
Mean (SD)* | Normotensive
Mean (SD) | Hypertensive
Mean (SD) | value† |
| | Age (years) | 46.3 (10.8) | 39.0 (8.4) | 53.6 (7.5) | <0.001 | | Schooling (years) | 10.8 (5.5) | 14.6 (3.1) | 7.1 (4.8) | <0.001 | | Diagnosis length | — | — | 9.6 (8.5) | — | | SBP¶ mmHg | 126.9 (23.6) | 112.2 (9.4) | 141.9 (24.2) | <0.001 | | DBP§ mmHg | 78.5 (13.8) | 70.9 (8.8) | 86.2 (13.7) | <0.001 | | MBP‡ mmHg | 94.6 (16.0) | 84.9 (8.5) | 104.9 (15.8) | <0.001 | | PP** mmHg | 48.4 (16.1) | 41.2 (7.0) | 56.2 (19.0) | <0.001 | | BMI†† Kg/m2 | 28.1 (5.6) | 25.2 (4.4) | 31.0 (5.2) | <0.001 | | WC¶¶ cm | 93.3 (11.4) | 87.7 (10.4) | 99.0 (9.5) | <0.001 |
| | | (%) | (%) | (%) | value§§ |
| | Gender | | | | | | Female | 92 (85.2%) | 50 (92.6%) | 42 (77.8%)
| 0.404 | | Skin color | | | | | | White | 64 (59.3%) | 42 (77.8%) | 23 (42.6%) | 0.018 | | Marital Status | | | | | | With partner | 67 (62.1%) | 29 (53.8%) | 38 (70.4%) | 0.272 | | Employment | | | | | | Active | 73 (67.6%) | 50 (92.6%) | 23 (42.6%) | 0.002 | | Nonactive | 19 (17.6%) | 3 (5.6%) | 16 (29.6%) | 0.005 | | Housewife | 16 (14.8%) | 1 (1.8%) | 15 (27.8%) | <0.001 | | Monthly family income*** | | | | | | U$ 0–1620.8 | 55 (55.6%) | 15 (31.9%) | 40 (76.9%) | 0.001 | | >U$ 1620.8 | 44 (44.4%) | 32 (68.1%) | 12 (23.1%) | 0.002 |
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∗SD: standard deviation; †Mann-Whitney test; ¶SBP: systolic blood pressure, §DBP: diastolic blood pressure; ‡MBP: mean blood pressure; **PP: pulse pressure = [SBP − DBP]; ††BMI: body mass index = [weigh/height2]; ¶¶WC: waist circumference [16]; §§Chi-square; ‡‡Missing: 2 normotensive; ***Missing: 7 normotensive and 3 hypertensive subjects.
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