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

Table 7

Multiple linear regression analysis for the 24-hour mean BP variation in study groups according to the gender.

	Univariate analysis				Multivariate analysis
	Coefficient ()	95% CI		Coefficient ()	95% CI
Age	−0.082	−0.057 to 0.010	0.173	−0.057	−0.062 to 0.026	0.428
Systolic blood pressure	0.258	0.041 to 0.108	<0.001	0.134	−0.035 to 0.118	0.288
Diastolic blood pressure	0.256	0.052 to 0.137	<0.001	0.096	−0.061 to 0.136	0.457
LDL-cholesterol	−0.055	−0.024 to 0.010	0.417	−0.036	−0.022 to 0.013	0.601
HDL-cholesterol	−0.003	−0.044 to 0.042	0.968	−0.014	−0.048 to 0.040	0.846
Triglycerides	−0.066	−0.011 to 0.004	0.323	−0.095	−0.013 to 0.002	0.179
Hemoglobin	0.241	−0.332 to 0.425	0.809	−0.022	−0.518 to 0.383	<0.001
Body mass index	0.149	0.036 to 0.303	0.013	0.115	−0.048 to 0.283	0.096
Epicardial fat thickness	0.100	−0.003 to 0.007	0.164	−0.043	−3.528 to 1.808	0.526
24-hour mean BP variation in males (, adjusted in multivariate analysis)
Age	0.104	−0.008 to 0.084	0.104	0.110	−0.018 to 0.100	0.175
Systolic blood pressure	0.289	0.047 to 0.114	<0.001	0.199	0.002 to 0.020	0.018
Diastolic blood pressure	0.315	0.075 to 0.166	<0.001	0.212	−0.027 to 0.211	0.127
LDL-cholesterol	0.094	−0.661 to 3.602	0.175	0.155	−0.15 to 5.784	0.063
HDL-cholesterol	0.104	−0.016 to 0.087	0.173	−0.038	−0.098 to 0.074	0.778
Triglycerides	0.122	−0.001 to 0.014	0.107	0.086	−0.030 to 0.089	0.328
Hemoglobin	0.071	−0.219 to 0.621	0.346	0.047	−0.331 to 0.602	0.566
Body mass index	0.142	0.022 to 0.337	0.026	0.140	−0.029 to 0.405	0.089
Epicardial fat thickness	0.170	0.002 to 0.039	0.027	0.175	0.002 to 0.042	0.033
24-hour mean BP variation in females , adjusted in multivariate analysis)

LDL: low density lipoprotein; HDL: high density lipoprotein; HR: heart rate; BP: blood pressure; CI: confidence interval.