Value of Assessing Autonomic Nervous Function by Heart Rate Variability and Heart Rate Turbulence in Hypertensive Patients

Table 2

Multivariate logistic regression results for risk of hypertension.

	B	S.E	Wald	P value	Exp	95% CI lower limit	95% CI upper limit
BMI	0.196	0.053	13.788	0.000	1.217	1.097	1.350
Stable CAD	0.832	0.395	4.431	0.035	2.297	1.059	4.982
TG	0.413	0.163	6.387	0.011	1.511	1.097	2.082
rMSSD (ms)	0.044	0.020	4.804	0.028	1.045	1.005	1.086
pNN50 (%)	0.070	0.031	5.249	0.022	1.073	1.010	1.139
VLF (ms)	0.039	0.024	2.716	0.099	1.041	0.993	1.091
LF (ms)	0.100	0.037	7.187	0.007	1.105	1.027	1.189
HF (ms)	0.096	0.046	4.356	0.037	1.100	1.006	1.203
TS (ms/ RR)	0.055	0.023	5.684	0.017	1.057	1.010	1.106

BMI, body mass index; CAD, coronary artery disease; TG, triglyceride; rMSSD, square root of mean of the sum of squares of successive NN interval differences; pNN50, number of successive NN intervals differing by >50ms divided by the total number of successive NN intervals; VLF, very low frequency; LF, low frequency; HF, high frequency; TS, turbulence slope.