Table 4: Correlation between blood pressure and nutrients intake levels. Significant relationships are shown in bold font.

		Pre-hypertensive patients (N = 137)		Hypertensive patients (N = 214)
		r	p	r	p
SBP vs.	% of energy from MUFA	-0.177	0.038	-0.069	0.318
	% of energy from PUFA	-0.135	0.115	-0.168	0.014
	Vitamin C	0.022	0.797	-0.163	0.017
DBP vs.	% of energy from MUFA	-0.172	0.045	0.036	0.596
	% of energy from PUFA	0.079	0.361	-0.182	0.007
	Selenium	-0.253	0.003	-0.048	0.581

Hypertension is defined as SBP ≥140 mmHg and/or DBP ≥ 90 mmHg, or both. Prehypertension is defined as SBP 120-139 mmHg and/or DBP 85-89 mmHg or both.