Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants.

From: Personal exposure to fine particulate air pollutants impacts blood pressure and heart rate variability

 

Mean (SD) or number (%)

All

21 (100%)

Age (years)

41.6 (25–55)

18–29

5

30–49

8

≥ 50

8

Sex

Male

1 (5%)

Female

20 (95%)

Underlying disease

Hypertension

0 (0%)

Arrhythmia

0 (0%)

Heart failure

0 (0%)

Coronary artery disease

0 (0%)

Current asthma

2(9%)

Systolic BP (mmHg)

Average

110.6 (6.64)

Day

112.4 (6.45)

Night

106.7 (9.99)

Dipper

5.08 (6.55)

SD day

11.14 (3.07)

SD night

7.06 (2.93)

Diastolic BP (mmHg)

Average

68.83 (6.72)

Day

70.28 (6.73)

Night

65.58 (8.18)

Dipper

6.62 (8.03)

SD day

8.96 (3.01)

SD night

6.39 (2.23)

Heart rate (bpm)

Min

54.56 (9.27)

Max

135.0 (17.63)

Average

76.31 (12.11)

Premature beat

SVPB (%)

9.44 (21.93)

VPB (%)

2.28 (6.24)

Heart rate variability

SDNN total (ms)

150.6 (40.47)

rMSSD total (ms)

37.29 (15.13)

SDSD total (ms)

27.01 (11.89)

HRV index (ms)

22.44 (10.44)

TINN (ms)

627.8 (207.20)

pNN50 total (%)

10.93 (9.10)

  1. Values are shown as mean (SD) or n (%).
  2. BP blood pressure, HRV heart rate variability, pNN50 proportion of the number of pairs of successive normal-to-normal that differ by more than 50 ms, rMSSD root mean square of successive differences, SD standard deviation, SDNN standard deviation of normal-to normal interval, SDSD standard deviation of successive differences, SVPB supraventricular premature beat, TINN triangular interpolation of normal-to-normal interval histogram, VPB ventricular premature beat.