Is There Any Correlation between Insulin Resistance and Nitrate Plasma Concentration in White Coat Hypertensive Patients?

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of normotensive (NT), hypertensive (HT), and white coat hypertensive (WCH) patients.

	NTs (𝑛=22)	HTs (𝑛=22)	WCHs (𝑛=20)
Clinic Systolic BP (mmHg)	114.9 ± 2.8	154.2 ± 3.1^‡	142.1 ± 1.75^‡§
Clinic Diastolic BP (mmHg)	76.1 ± 0.8	98.6 ± 2.1^‡	90.21 ±3.4^‡§
Ambulatory Systolic BP (mmHg)	102.9 ± 8.5	143.9 ± 3.9^‡	118.5 ± 1.4^‡#
Ambulatory Diastolic BP (mmHg)	71.79± 1.24	92.21 ± 3.0^‡	75.78 ± 1.44^‡#
Age (years)	43.95 ± 2.66	49.14 ± 3.42	44.07 ± 3.39
BMI (kg/m^2)	24.40 ± 0.73	29.13 ± 1.02^‡	28.21 ± 0.73^†
WC (cm)	0.86 ± 0.02	0.92 ± 0.02^†	0.89 ± 0.02

^∗𝑃<.05×NTs; ^†𝑃<.01×NTs, ^‡𝑃<.001×NTs, ^x𝑃<.05×HTs, ^#𝑃<.001×HTs.