Preliminary Experiment on the Effect of 18% Substitute Salt on Home Blood Pressure Variability in Hypertensives

Table 3

Changes in blood pressure from baseline during intervention, mean (95% CI).

Week	SBP am		SBP pm		DBP am		DBP pm
	Statistics		Statistics		Statistics		Statistics
Baseline	136.0 (130.2, 140.7)	−	133.8 (128.5, 139.0)	−	76.6 (74.2, 78.9)	−	74.4 (71.9, 77.0)	−
1	−3.1 (−10.0, 3.7)	0.365	−4.8 (−10.9, 1.4)	0.124	−0.6 (−3.9, 2.6)	0.705	−1.9 (−5.1, 1.4)	0.253
2	−6.2 (−12.7, 0.3)	0.060	−7.8 (−13.7, −2.0)	0.010	−1.7 (−4.9, 1.5)	0.284	−3.0 (−6.1, 0.2)	0.063
3	−7.6 (−14.1, −1.1)	0.023	−8.6 (−14.8, −2.4)	0.007	−2.0 (−5.3, 1.3)	0.232	−2.7 (−5.8, 0.4)	0.082
4	−8.9 (−15.4, −2.4)	0.008	−9.3 (−15.2, −3.4)	0.002	−2.2 (−5.6, 1.1)	0.189	−3.3 (−6.4, −0.3)	0.033
5	−9.9 (−16.2, −3.6)	0.003	−11.0 (−16.8, −5.1)	<0.001	−3.6 (−6.6, −0.6)	0.018	−3.9 (−7.0, −0.8)	0.014
6	−8.7 (−15.1, −2.3)	0.009	−10.1 (−15.8, −4.3)	0.001	−2.8 (−6.0, 0.3)	0.078	−3.4 (−6.5, −0.3)	0.031
7	−11.0 (−17.2, −4.7)	0.001	−11.9 (−17.8, −6.1)	<0.001	−3.3 (−6.4, −0.1)	0.041	−4.2 (−7.3, −1.1)	0.009
8	−10.0 (−16.5, −3.5)	0.003	−10.2 (−16.1, −4.3)	0.001	−2.8 (−6.1, 0.5)	0.097	−4.0 (−7.1, −0.8)	0.014

Adjusted for sex, age, body mass index, and reduction of antihypertensive drugs in the linear mixed model.