Hypertensive Crisis, Burden, Management, and Outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi

Table 2

Comparison of blood pressure in patients with and without hypertensive crisis on intravenous and per oral medications.

	Hypertensive crisis			No hypertensive crisis
	PO	IV		PO	IV
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	value	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	value
	SBP 0*	195 (17)	207 (17)	<0.001	156 (14)	162 (10)	0.01
	SBP discharge**	151 (27)	154 (23)	0.56	141 (19)	144 (19)	0.31
Drop in SBP***	43 (27)	53.1 (29)	0.01	15 (21)	17.6 (21)	0.49
DBP 0	103 (15)	111 (17)	0.001	87 (15)	88 (14)	0.62
DBP discharge	85 (19)	85 (16)	0.93	77 (11)	79 (14)	0.46
Drop in DBP	17.8 (22)	25.8 (19)	0.006	9.6 (a6)	9.3 (15)	0.90

*SBP 0 is systolic blood pressure on admission to ER, **SBP discharge was systolic blood pressure at discharge from ER or shifting to ward, and ***drop in SBP was SBP on admission to ER-SBP at discharge from ER.