Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in a Cohort of Children Referred with Suspected Hypertension: Characteristics of Children with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Table 1

Patient characteristics and ABPM results.

	Patients with history of ADHD	Patients without history of ADHD	𝑃 value
N * (% of total)	48 (21%)	179 (79%)
Mean age	13.02 (SD = 3.00)	12.41 (SD = 3.69)	NS^†
Gender	M/F 40/8	M/F 100/79	𝑃=0.0009
Mean BMI	22.0 (SD = 7.48)	22.7 (SD = 6.43)	NS
Mean BMI 𝑧-score	0.18 (SD = 1.59)	0.75 (SD = 1.25)	𝑃=0.0089
𝑁 with mean systolic BP > 90%	19 (40.0%)	55 (30.7%)	NS
𝑁 with mean diastolic BP > 90%	5 (10.4%)	14 (7.8%)	NS
𝑁 with mean systolic BP > 95%	13 (27.1%)	40 (22.3%)	NS
𝑁 with mean diastolic BP > 95%	1 (2.1%)	8 (4.5%)	NS
𝑁 with mean wake systolic load > 25%	18 (37.5%)	7 (3.9%)	𝑃<0.0001
𝑁 with mean sleep systolic load > 25%	3 (6.3%)	45 (25.1%)	𝑃=0.0158
𝑁 with mean wake diastolic load > 25%	17 (35.4%)	44 (24.6%)	NS
𝑁 with mean sleep diastolic load > 25%	10 (20.8%)	29 (16.2%)	NS
𝑁 with any ABPM test abnormality	22 (45.8%)	71 (40.0%)	NS

^∗𝑁: number of patients; ^†NS: nonsignificant.