Evening CRVE
hypertension, CRVE, CRAE, SDB
HYPERTENSION, EYE
Group mean values for evening CRVE in our Main Group were ~15% smaller than reported for the younger Inter99 Eye study community cohort [In multivariate Base Models, Main Group evening CRVE values were predicted by a combination of “fixed at the time of study” individual characteristics (ethnicity, smoking history, hypertension history; with age and height borderline) and one “physiological variable” (diastolic BP, with systolic BP borderline; see As for CRAE, it should be emphasised, that our Base Model explains only ~25% of the total variance in Main Group evening CRVE, leaving the vast majority of the between subject variance unexplained. Again, this is not unusual, with published models developed using larger cohorts explaining only 4.2 to 21% of the variance [In the Main Group, no SDB variable correlated with CRVE values and when SDB variables were added to the base model there were no improvements in the amount of variance explained and no SDB variable emerged as a predictor. This outcome differs from that of Shankar et al [For CRVE in the Main Group, group mean values were slightly larger in the morning versus evening (see 