Correction to: Journal of Human Hypertension (2017) 31, 462–473; doi:10.1038/jhh.2016.98; published online 16 February 2017

Since the publication of this article, the authors have noticed that ‘%’ sign had been omitted after ‘59.5’ in the abstract section, line 13. Additionally, reference 27 should have been omitted. This omission has led to the following changes:

Statistical analyses section: line 11, reference after (GPAQ) changes from ‘28’ to ‘27’

Discussion section: paragraph 2, line 17: reference ‘14, 29’ changes to ‘14, 28’,

paragraph 2, line 26: reference ‘30’ changes to ‘29’

paragraph 2, last line: reference ‘31’ changes to ‘30’

paragraph 3, line 10: reference ‘32’ changes to ‘31’

paragraph 4, last line: reference ‘33’ changes to ‘32’

paragraph 5, last line: reference ‘14, 29’ changes to ‘14, 28’

The authors would like to apologise for these errors.