Impact of Gender on the Association of Epicardial Fat Thickness, Obesity, and Circadian Blood Pressure Pattern in Hypertensive Patients

Table 8

Binary logistic regression analysis to identify the independent determinants of nocturnal nondipping blood pressure (BP) pattern.

	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval
Age	1.003	0.981 to 1.025	0.782
Epicardial fat thickness	0.499	0.126 to 1.974	0.322
Body mass index	1.061	0.974 to 1.157	0.177
Hypertension	12.708	2.911 to 55.479	0.001
Dyslipidemia	1.019	0.562 to 1.848	0.950
Presence of nondipping BP pattern in males (adjusted )
Age	1.003	0.978 to 1.030	0.792
Epicardial fat thickness	7.034	2.258 to 21.909	0.001
Body mass index	0.940	0.857 to 1.031	0.940
Hypertension	6.479	2.462 to 17.053	<0.001
Dyslipidemia	1.173	0.648 to 2.122	0.598
Presence of nondipping BP pattern in females (adjusted )