The association between blood pressure and whole blood methylmercury in a cross-sectional study among Inuit in Greenland

Table 2 The association between whole blood mercury and blood pressure parameters among Inuit ^§ (30–69 years) in Greenland; the analyses have been adjusted for confounders ^ab

	Log-Systolic blood pressure^c		Log-Diastolic blood pressure^c		Log-Pulse pressure^c
Log whole blood mercury*4	Parameter estimate (standard error)	P-value	Parameter estimate (standard error)	P-value	Parameter estimate (standard error)	P-value
Men	−0.02 (0.01)	0.06	−0.04 (0.01)	0.001	0.01 (0.02)	0.57
Women	−0.003 (0.01)	0.77	−0.01 (0.01)	0.19	0.01 (0.02)	0.49

^§ Only participants with four Greenlandic grandparents and with no anti-hypertensive drug therapy.
^a Confounders: age, smoking habits, blood selenium, ratio of n-3/n-6 fatty acids, waist circumference.
^b The models were based on 615 men and 787 women (with non-missing values for all included variables).
^c The outcome variables of interest, systolic and diastolic BP, and pulse pressure were not normally distributed and were included as natural log-transformed variables in the model.

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