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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res. 2006 Nov 21;1125(1):138–146. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.082

Table 3.

Summary of vital statistics of study subjects.

Group n M/F Age pH Postmortem
interval		 No. of
smokers
Control 21 17/4 49 ± 3 6.66 ± 0.06 19.3 ± 1.3 10
Major depressive
disorder		 9 9/2 50 ± 5 6.61 ± 0.09 25.5 ± 2.8* 5
Suicide1 17 15/2 49 ± 4 6.65 ± 0.07 21.2 ± 2.5 7
1

This group includes a number of different affective disorders including 7 of the 9 major depressive disorder subjects (see Table 1).

*

p < 0.05 compared to control subjects (t-test)