Sympathovagal Imbalance in Prehypertensive Offspring of Two Parents versus One Parent Hypertensive

Table 5

Correlation of LF-HF ratio with BMI, WHR, BHR, blood pressure, 30 : 15 ratio, E : I ratio, and ΔDBP_IHG of various groups.

Parameters	Group I		Group II		Group III		Group IV
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
BMI	0.018	0.120	0.016	0.140	0.350	0.020	0.312	0.048
WHR	0.310	0.049	0.150	0.110	0.400	0.009	0.380	0.010
BHR	0.285	0.075	0.270	0.080	0.360	0.016	0.354	0.022
SBP	0.280	0.085	0.250	0.090	0.316	0.045	0.312	0.048
DBP	0.320	0.042	0.305	0.050	0.480	0.001	0.400	0.009
30 : 15 Ratio	0.315	0.048	0.276	0.084	0.390	0.006	0.370	0.008
E : I Ratio	0.320	0.047	0.284	0.060	0.485	0.001	0.388	0.004
ΔDBPIHG	0.292	0.060	0.220	0.101	0.335	0.025	0.326	0.046

The P values less than 0.05 were considered significant.