Table 1.
Mean age (± 1 SD) and gender distribution in the eight subject groups.
Fig 1.
Circadian rhythms of HR in normotensive and hypertensive subjects with and without smoking (left panel) and their linear regression (right panel) in the three periods considered (10:00–20:00, 20:00–4:00, 5:00–10:00).
N = Normotensive, NS = Normotensive smoking, H = Hypertensive, HS = Hypertensive smoking.
Fig 2.
Circadian rhythms of HR in normotensive and hypertensive subjects with and without dyslipidemia (left panel) and their linear regression (right panel) in the three periods considered (10:00–20:00, 20:00–4:00, 5:00–10:00).
N = Normotensive, ND = Normotensive with dyslipidemia, H = Hypertensive, HD = Hypertensive with dyslipidemia.
Fig 3.
Circadian rhythms of HR in normotensive and hypertensive subjects with and without obesity (left panel) and their linear regression (right panel) in the three periods considered (10:00–20:00, 20:00–4:00, 5:00–10:00).
N = Normotensive, NO = Normotensive obese, H = Hypertensive, HO = Hypertensive obese.
Table 2.
Slope, intercept and R2 values of the linear regression calculated in the three time periods in the eight subject groups.
Table 3.
Mean values ± 1SD of HR values (bpm) in the three periods, during day time, night time and along the 24h, for each subject group.
Table 4.
P-value of the comparison between normotensive and hypertensive groups with and without risk factors.
Table 5.
P-value of the comparison between normotensive and hypertensive groups presenting the same risk factor.