Research Article

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.

TotalMale patientsFemale patients
N = 353N = 167N = 186

Age (years)60.8±12.057.9±13.163.3±10.4<0.001
Initiation of hypertension (years)48.5±13.546.3±13.850.4±12.90.004
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
Depressive6.7±3.35.9±2.87.5±3.5<0.001
Cyclothymic4.1 ± 4.03.8 ± 3.84.5 ± 4.10.092
Hyperthymic11.5±4.312.3±4.310.8±4.10.001
Irritable4.4±3.35.0±3.63.9±2.90.001
Anxious6.2±5.74.7±5.47.6±5.7<0.001

Continuous data are presented as mean ± SD. TEMPS-A, Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire.