Influence of hypertension and other risk factors on the onset of sublingual varices

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Table 4 Distribution of subjects with (SV) and without SV (NSV) in the four subject groups according to the six risk factors

	Normotensive subjects		New diagnosed hypertensive		Compensated hypertensive		Resistant hypertensive
	Gender
	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
NSV	125	81	62	47	167	113	76	53
SV	43	14	12	13	72	61	35	34
	Smoking
	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
NSV	169	37	89	20	245	35	104	25
SV	51	6	18	7	110	23	55	14
	Diabetes mellitus
	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
NSV	195	11	102	7	242	38	105	24
SV	52	5	24	1	109	24	52	17
	Obesity
	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
NSV	173	33	82	27	207	73	79	50
SV	44	13	17	8	91	42	48	21
	Antihypertensive therapy
	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
NSV	142	64	73	36	1	279	3	126
SV	37	20	16	9	2	131	2	67

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