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Table 4 Changes in Cardiovascular Risk Factors of Patients with Hypertension Grade 2 after 3 months

From: Reduction of cardiovascular risk factors among young men with hypertension using an interactive decision aid: cluster-randomized control trial

 

Intervention group at baseline

Intervention group after 3 months

Intervention group mean difference over time (p value)

Control group baseline

Control group after 3 months

Control group mean difference over time (p value)

Mean difference of change between IG and CG (p value)

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

140.77 (1.79)

134.77 (2.42)

− 6 (0.021)*

135.42 (2.92)

137.27 (2.37)

 + 1.86(0.471)

− 7.86 (0.038)*

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)

91.57 (1.73)

87.39 (1.65)

− 4.18 (0.056)

88.08 (2.06)

88.77 (1.99)

 + 0.69 (0.730)

− 4.87 (0.119)

Total cholesterol (mmol/L)

5.69 (0.19)

5.59 (0.23)

− 0.09 (0.540)

5.48 (0.21)

5.39 (0.23)

− 0.09 (0.594)

− 0.01 (0.985)

BMI (kg/m2)

32.84 (1.09)

32.99 (1.15)

 + 0.15 (0.627)

32.2 (1.2)

32.15 (1.24)

− 0.05 (0.792)

 + 0.2 (0.617)

Waist (cm)

110.49 (2.7)

110.17 (2.81)

− 0.31 (0.579)

108.58 (2.87)

108.65 (3.08)

 + 0.06 (0.947)

− 0.38 (0.721)

Cigarettes per day (total number)††

17.67 (2.58

14.2 (2.18)

− 3.47 (0.069)

13.7 (2.03)

15 (1.49)

 + 1.3 (0.471)

− 4.77 (0.073)

10-year stroke or heart attack risk from decision aid(percentage)

9.59 (1.53)

8.7 (1.49)

− 0.89 (0.214)

7.87 (1.91)

8.13 (2.09)

 + 0.26 (0.753)

− 1.15 (0.287)

QRISK-lifetime cardiovascular risk (percentage)

62.82 (2.24)

62.1 (2.42)

− 0.71 (0.445)

65.42 (2.7)

65.44 (2.9)

 + 0.02 (0.985)

− 0.69 (0.585)

  1. Continuous variables are presented as mean and standard error of mean (SE MEAN)
  2. BMI—body mass index kg/m2; CG—Control Group; IG—Intervention Group
  3. *p values under 0.05 are considered as significant and tagged with an asterisk
  4. IG n = 35; CG n = 24 (with multiple imputation regression method)
  5. ††including patients who started or quit smoking during the follow-up period; IG n = 12; CG n = 10