Association between Cyclothymic Affective Temperament and Age of Onset of Hypertension
Table 1
Patient characteristics and the scores of the different directions of the affective temperaments in the whole population and in men and women separately.
Total
Male patients
Female patients
N = 353
N = 167
N = 186
Age (years)
60.8±12.0
57.9±13.1
63.3±10.4
<0.001
Initiation of hypertension (years)
48.5±13.5
46.3±13.8
50.4±12.9
0.004
Positive family history, n (%)
269 (76.2)
121 (72.5)
148 (79.6)
0.092
Smoking at hypertension initiation, n (%)
118 (33.4)
54 (32.1)
64 (34.4)
0.680
Alcohol consumption at hypertension initiation, n (%)
162 (45.9)
99 (59.3)
63 (33.9)
<0.001
TEMPS-A
Depressive
6.7±3.3
5.9±2.8
7.5±3.5
<0.001
Cyclothymic
4.1 ± 4.0
3.8 ± 3.8
4.5 ± 4.1
0.092
Hyperthymic
11.5±4.3
12.3±4.3
10.8±4.1
0.001
Irritable
4.4±3.3
5.0±3.6
3.9±2.9
0.001
Anxious
6.2±5.7
4.7±5.4
7.6±5.7
<0.001
Continuous data are presented as mean ± SD. TEMPS-A, Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire.