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Table 1 Comparison of Health Centre participants with and without MOH data

From: Insights into the clinical management of the syndrome of supine hypertension – orthostatic hypotension (SH-OH): The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

 

Has MOH groups (N = 4,467)

Missing MOH groups (N= 570)

P

Age: mean (SD)

61.6 (8.3)

64.5 (9.4)

<0.001 a

Seated* SBP: mean (SD)

134.3 (19.4)

137.4 (20.0)

<0.001 a

Seated* DBP: mean (SD)

82.3 (11.1)

82.5 (11.5)

0.67a

Number of medications: mean (SD)

2.3 (2.5)

2.8 (2.9)

<0.001 b

Any cardiovascular disease: count (%)

2,772 (62.1)

403 (70.1)

<0.001 c

Any IADL disability: count (%)

172 (3.9)

58 (10.1)

<0.001 c

  1. a t-test; b Mann Whitney U test; c Chi-square test.
  2. * Seated blood pressure was measured with sphygmomanometer.