Ambulatory systolic blood pressure and obesity are independently associated with left ventricular hypertrophic remodeling in children

Table 5 Linear correlations between BMI z-score, ABP measurements and measures of left ventricular remodeling

	LVMI		LV Thickness		LV Mass/Volume		LV Hypertrophy score
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
BMI z-score	0.62	<0.001	0.49	<0.001	0.43	<0.001	0.58	<0.001
Systolic
24 h SBP	0.36	0.003	0.60	<0.001	0.44	<0.001	0.44	<0.001
Day SBP	0.39	0.001	0.57	<0.001	0.41	<0.001	0.45	<0.001
Night SBP	0.34	0.005	0.57	<0.001	0.46	<0.001	0.43	<0.001
24 h systolic load	0.33	0.006	0.43	<0.001	0.36	0.003	0.37	0.002
Day systolic load	0.34	0.005	0.37	0.002	0.32	0.007	0.36	0.003
Night systolic load	0.31	0.01	0.44	<0.001	0.39	0.001	0.36	0.003
Systolic dipping					−0.26	0.04
Diastolic
24 h DBP					0.27	0.03
Night DBP			0.24	0.046	0.31	0.01
24 h diastolic load			0.26	0.03	0.31	0.009
Night diastolic load			0.32	0.007	0.32	0.009

ABP ambulatory blood pressure, BMI body mass index, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, LVMI left ventricular mass index

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