Impact of Gender on the Association of Epicardial Fat Thickness, Obesity, and Circadian Blood Pressure Pattern in Hypertensive Patients

Table 6

Correlation between body mass index or epicardial fat thickness and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure parameters.

	Body mass index		Epicardial fat thickness
Male
24-hour mean BP	0.166	0.006	−0.052	0.437
24-hour mean BP variation	0.137	0.022	−0.019	0.773
Day mean BP	0.163	0.007	−0.039	0.560
Day mean BP variation	0.147	0.014	−0.046	0.495
Night mean BP	0.024	0.696	−0.068	0.324
Night mean BP variation	0.128	0.037	0.047	0.491
24-hour mean HR	0.109	0.071	0.109	0.106
24-hour mean HR variation	0.106	0.080	0.007	0.919
Day HR	0.061	0.314	0.084	0.213
Day HR variation	0.172	0.004	0.008	0.907
Night HR	0.103	0.092	0.033	0.627
Night HR variation	0.043	0.482	−0.071	0.302
Left atrial diameter	0.359	<0.001	−0.021	0.766
Relative wall thickness	0.116	0.091	0.037	0.605
Female
24-hour mean BP	0.200	0.002	0.195	0.005
24-hour mean BP variation	0.142	0.026	0.121	0.040
Day mean BP	0.214	0.001	0.191	0.006
Day mean BP variation	0.120	0.059	0.121	0.080
Night mean BP	0.124	0.054	0.182	0.009
Night mean BP variation	0.002	0.979	0.165	0.018
24-hour mean HR	0.080	0.210	0.000	0.998
24-hour mean HR variation	0.082	0.198	−0.075	0.281
Day HR	0.030	0.642	−0.032	0.641
Day HR variation	0.084	0.187	−0.075	0.281
Night HR	0.092	0.154	0.015	0.823
Night HR variation	−0.080	0.216	0.081	0.245
Left atrial diameter	0.186	0.004	0.159	0.012
Relative wall thickness	0.144	0.040	0.094	0.175

BP: blood pressure; HR: heart rate.