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
	𝑅	𝑃 value∗	𝑟	𝑃 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

∗Significance was 2-tailed.