Trajectories of Blood Pressure in Patients with Established Coronary Artery Disease over 20 years

Table 3

Time trends in least squares means of blood pressure according to sex, age, and education. Multivariable models include age, sex, education, employment, index event, and body mass index.

	Survey I	Survey II	Survey III	Survey IV	Survey V	for trend	for interaction
Systolic blood pressure
Men, mean (SD)	138.2 (20.2)	138.5 (22.9)	134.0 (19.7)	134.2 (19.6)	132.1 (20.5)	<0.001	0.12
Women, mean (SD)	140.2 (22.2)	144.1 (22.2)	139.9 (22.0)	134.0 (22.2)	134.9 (22.7)	<0.001
Diastolic blood pressure, mean (SD)
Men, mean (SD)	83.9 (11.7)	84.3 (11.4)	85.4 (11.4)	81.8 (11.4)	81.8 (11.9)	<0.001	0.10
Women, mean (SD)	81.6 (11.9)	85.9 (11.9)	84.3 (11.8)	79.0 (11.9)	80.7 (12.1)	<0.05
Systolic blood pressure
Age ≤60 years, mean (SD)	135.4 (19.7)	134.3 (19.3)	129.1 (19.4)	130.7 (19.4)	134.5 (19.7)	0.06	0.13
Age >60 years, mean (SD)	142.3 (19.8)	145.4 (19.5)	141.4 (19.6)	136.7 (19.5)	134.2 (19.8)	<0.001
Diastolic blood pressure, mean (SD)
Age ≤60 years, mean (SD)	84.8 (12.0)	84.9 (11.8)	85.3 (11.8)	82.2 (11.8)	84.5 (12.0)	0.18	0.35
Age >60 years, mean (SD)	81.8 (11.4)	84.9 (11.4)	84.9 (11.3)	79.8 (11.3)	80.1 (11.9)	<0.001
Systolic blood pressure
Vocational or primary education, mean (SD)	140.7 (22.3)	141.4 (21.8)	138.6 (21.6)	136.0 (21.8)	134.0 (22.4)	<0.01	0.87
At least secondary education, mean (SD)	137.3 (19.4)	138.5 (19.2)	132.8 (19.0)	132.1 (19.1)	133.1 (19.9)	<0.001
Diastolic blood pressure, mean (SD)
Vocational or primary education, mean (SD)	83.5 (10.6)	84.5 (11.2)	86.5 (11.6)	81.7 (12.2)	82.0 (16.1)	0.11	0.40
At least secondary education, mean (SD)	82.9 (11.1)	85.1 (11.0)	83.7 (10.8)	80.3 (10.9)	81.0 (11.4)	<0.001