Table 3 Status of systolic blood pressure at 6 months

From: Blood pressure changes after renal denervation at 10 European expert centers

Variable

Office systolic pressure at baseline (mm Hg)

 

<160

160–179

⩾180

Whole range

Number of patients

35

33

41

109

Office blood pressure

 Normalization

13 (37.1)

8 (24.2)

4 (9.8)*

25 (22.9)

 Improved

12 (34.3)

21 (63.6)†

32 (78.0)

65 (59.6)

 No decrease

14 (40.0)

7 (21.2)

4 (9.8)

25 (22.9)

24-h blood pressure

 Normalization

8 (22.9)

6 (18.2)

2 (4.9)*

16 (14.7)

 Improved

13 (37.1)

11 (33.3)

10 (24.4)

34 (31.2)

 No decrease

13 (37.1)

13 (39.4)

12 (29.3)

38 (34.9)

  1. Values are number of patients (%). Reaching normal systolic blood pressure was achieving levels <140 mm Hg or <130 mm Hg on office or 24-h ambulatory measurement, respectively. Improvement was a decrease in the office or 24-h systolic pressure by ⩾10 mm Hg. No decrease was a systolic pressure at 6 months equal to or higher than the baseline value. Numbers do not add up, because of overlap between categories of achieved blood pressure.
  2. Significance of the difference with the left adjacent subgroup: *0.07⩽P⩽0.09; †P=0.01.
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