Table 3 Heritability estimates for office, 24-h and stress BP from the best fitting model

From: Genetic influence on blood pressure measured in the office, under laboratory stress and during real life

 

SBP

DBP

24 h

 h2, total (95% CI)

0.71 (0.60–0.79)

0.69 (0.59–0.77)

 e2, total (95% CI)

0.29 (0.21–0.40)

0.31 (0.23–0.41)

Office

 h2, total (95% CI)

0.63 (0.50–0.72)

0.59 (0.47–0.68)

 e2, total (95% CI)

0.37 (0.28–0.50)

0.41 (0.32–0.53)

Stress

 h2, total (95% CI)

0.75 (0.66–0.82)

0.67 (0.56–0.75)

 e2, total (95% CI)

0.25 (0.18–0.34)

0.33 (0.25–0.44)

  1. Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; CI, confidence interval; DBP, diastolic BP; e2, unique environmental contribution to the variance; h2, genetic contribution to the variance (also known as heritability); SBP, systolic BP.
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