Association of urinary monomethylated arsenic concentration and risk of hypertension: a cross-sectional study from arsenic contaminated areas in northwestern China

Table 2 Correlations between urinary arsenic and blood pressure by bivariate correlation analysis

	Systolic blood pressure		Diastolic blood pressure		Pulse blood pressure
	Pearson correlation coefficient	p-value	Pearson correlation coefficient	p-value	Pearson correlation coefficient	p-value
Urinary arsenic species
iAs (μg/g Cr)	0.078	0.056	−0.015	0.706	0.130	0.001
MMA (μg/g Cr)	0.128	0.002	0.016	0.689	0.177	0.000
DMA (μg/g Cr)	0.157	0.000	0.034	0.400	0.204	0.000
tAs (μg/g Cr)	0.152	0.000	0.027	0.510	0.203	0.000
Urinary arsenic percentage
iAs(%)	−0.032	0.436	−0.054	0.182	0.002	0.971
MMA(%)	0.017	0.673	−0.011	0.793	0.035	0.391
DMA(%)	0.016	0.699	0.027	0.507	−0.001	0.979

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