Hydrogen sulphide-related thiol metabolism and nutrigenetics in relation to hypertension in an elderly population

Genes & Nutrition

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for blood thiols, dietary micronutrients and both systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mean and SEM)

	Homocysteine (μmol/L)	Cysteine (μmol/L)	Glutathione (μmol/L)	Synthetic folic acid (μg/day)	Natural folic acid (μg/day)	Vitamin B₁₂ (μg/day)	Vitamin B₆ (mg/day)	Recumbent systolic average (mm Hg)	Recumbent diastolic average (mm Hg)
All subjects	9.39	258.06	10.40	120.15	327.48	14.47	3.96	131.40	69.64
SEM	0.18	2.15	0.25	9.94	6.87	1.64	0.11	0.83	0.54
n	228	228	228	228	228	228	228	228	228
Normotensive	9.24	259.82	10.24	125.55	326.89	15.42	4.03	127.37	68.20
SEM	0.20	2.47	0.26	11.04	7.65	1.91	0.12	0.71	0.54
n	186	186	186	186	186	186	186	186	186
Hypertensive	10.11	250.26	11.07	98.18	330.05	10.27	3.65	149.24	76.05
SEM	0.40	3.88	0.77	22.83	15.85	2.67	0.24	1.05	1.32
n	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42
Comparison of clinical phenotypes (t test of log₁₀ transformed data)	p = 0.0399	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	na	na

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