Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of subjects (n = 250).
Figure 1.
Plasma BDNF in patients divided into extreme-dippers, dippers, non-dippers, and reverse-dippers based on changes in nocturnal blood pressure.
BDNF was natural logarithm-transformed (ln) to achieve a normal distribution. Each column represents the mean ± standard deviation. The overall P value for the 4-group comparison of means was calculated using an ANOVA F-test, while a post hoc test with Bonferroni correction was used to compare with dippers. There were significant differences in plasma BDNF among the 4-groups (P<0.001), and its level in the reverse dippers was significantly lower than in the dippers.
Table 2.
Plasma BDNF independently associated with reverse-dipper pattern of nocturnal blood pressure change.
Table 3.
Association of plasma BDNF with HRV parameters.
Table 4.
Plasma BDNF and LF independently associated with reverse-dipper pattern of nocturnal blood pressure change.