Table 2.

Recovery in patients with incident PSD at 1-year after stroke.

Recovery time (time since stroke)	Recovery time (time since depression)	Patients with depression at 1-year with complete follow-up	Patients with depression at 1-year recovered for the first time	Proportion of patients with depression at 1-year recovered for the first time (95% CI)	Patients with mild depression at 1-year with complete follow-up	Patients with mild depression at 1-year recovered for the first time	Proportion of patients with mild depression at 1-year recovered for the first time (95% CI)	Patients with severe depression at 1-year with complete follow-up	Patients with severe depression at 1-year recovered for the first time	Proportion of patients with severe depression at 1-year recovered for the first time (95% CI)
2 y	1 y	181	92	50.8 (43.3–58.3)	107	63	58.9 (49.0–68.3)a	74	29	39.2 (28.0–51.2)a
3 y	2 y	156	37	23.7 (17.3–31.2)	100	26	24.0 (16.0–33.6)	56	11	19.6 (10.2–32.4)
4 y	3 y	132	13	9.8 (5.3–16.3)	73	5	6.8 (2.3–15.3)	59	8	13.6 (6.0–25.0)
5 y	4 y	150	26	17.3 (11.6–24.4)	86	15	17.4 (10.1–27.1)	64	11	17.2 (8.9–28.7)
6 y	5 y	78	7	9.0 (3.7–17.6)	48	4	8.3 (2.3–20.0)	30	3	10.0 (2.1–26.5)
7 y	6 y	59	3	5.1 (1.1–14.1)	38	3	7.9 (1.7–21.4)	21	0	0
8 y	7 y	42	1	2.4 (0.1–12.6)	28	1	3.6 (0.1–18.3)	14	0	0
9 y	8 y	34	3	8.9 (1.9–23.7)	23	1	4.3 (0.1–21.9)	11	2	18.2 (2.3–51.8)
10 y	9 y	28	2	7.1 (0.9–23.5)	19	2	10.5 (1.3–33.1)	9	0	0
11 y	10 y	29	2	6.9 (0.8–22.8)	18	1	5.6 (0.1–27.3)	11	1	9.1 (0.2–41.3)
12 y	11 y	23	1	4.3 (0.1–21.9)	15	1	6.7 (0.2–31.9)	8	0	0
13 y	12 y	18	0	0	11	0	0	7	0	0
14 y	13 y	10	0	0	7	0	0	3	0	0
15 y	14 y	22	0	0	14	0	0	8	0	0
16 y	15 y	22	0	0	14	0	0	8	0	0
17 y	16 y	12	0	0	6	0	0	6	0	0
18 y	17 y	8	0	0	4	0	0	4	0	0

^aTwo proportional Z test was used to compare the recovery rates between mild and severe depression, a means p < 0.05.