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Table 4 Associations of clinic and ambulatory BP parameters with clinical variables

From: Ambulatory monitoring unmasks hypertension among kidney transplant patients: single center experience and review of the literature

BP variable →

Clinic

Clinic

Awake

Sleep

Sleep dip

Sleep

Non-dip

Awake SD

Clinical variable ↓

SBP/DBP

HTN

SBP/DBP

SBP/DBP

SBP/DBP

HTN

SBP/DBP

SBP/DBP

Age > 60 y

NS/−4.6a

–

+ 10.0a/NS

–

–

–

–

+ 3.1b/NS

Sex, male

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

BMI, kg/m2

+ 0.82b/NS

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Diabetes

+ 7.9a/NS

–

NS/−6.3a

+ 11.3a/NS

NS/−0.07b

–

–

+ 2.4a/NS

Cadaveric allograft

–

–

NS/−6.3a

–

–

–

–

–

Time since Tx, y

–

–

–

–

–

− 0.10a

–

–

Proteinuria, log10(mg/d)

+ 9.8b/NS

+ 1.8b

+ 10.0a/NS

–

–

–

–

–

HTN medications, #

+ 3.1c/NS

–

+ 3.4a/NS

+ 4.0a/NS

–

–

–

–

HTN medications, cumulative dose

+ 0.05c/NS

–

+ 0.07c/NS

0.07b/NS

–

–

–

–

HTN medications, evening dosing

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

NS/−1.2a

eGFR, ml/min/1.73m2

−0.22c/NS

− 0.03a

–

–

–

–

–

–

CrCl, ml/min

−0.12a/NS

− 0.03a

–

–

–

–

–

–

P. creatinine, μmol/l

–

+ 0.01a

–

–

–

–

–

–

Tacrolimus vs CsA

–

–

–

–

NS/−0.08b

+ 1.9a

+ 1.5a/NS

–

Hemoglobin, g/dl

–

–

–

–

+ 0.01a/+ 0.01a

–

–

–

  1. Cell values represent the coefficient (ß) in a model with the BP-related parameter (column names) as the independent variable and the clinical parameter (row names) as the dependent variable. Abbreviations: BMI Body mass index, eGFR Estimated glomerular filtration rate, CrCl Creatinine clearance, CsA Cyclosporine, SBP Systolic blood pressure, DBP Diastolic blood pressure, HTN Hypertension, SD Standard deviation, NS (as well as ‘-’) Non-significant; ap < 0.05 (but not significant after adjustment for multiple comparisons); bp ≤ 0.005 (in some cases borderline after adjustment for multiple comparisons; cp ≤ 0.001 – see multiple comparison-adjusted p-values in Additional file 3