Table 1.

Demographic data of controls and major depressive subjects

Control (pair no.)	Age	Sex	PMI	Brain pH	Toxicology	Cause of death
1	35	M	25	6.74	Lidocaine	Heart disease
2	30	M	19	6.98	Clean	Heart disease
3	33	M	23	6.86	Clean	Heart disease
4	27	F	15	7.01	Clean	Heart disease
5	43	M	23	6.49	Propoxyphene, norpropoxyphene, oxycodone	Pulmonary thromboemboli
6	37	M	13	5.93	Clean	Viral myocarditis
7	46	M	11	6.95	Clean	Heart disease
8	54	M	17	6.87	Brompheniramine	Heart disease
9	67	F	28	6.39	Clean	Heart disease
10	69	F	26	6.7	Clean	Heart disease
11	70	M	20	6.81	Clean	Heart disease
12	74	M	21	6.62	Clean	Abdominal aortic aneurysm
13	59	M	6	6.79	Lidocaine	Heart disease
14	34	M	24	6.61	Ethanol	Thrombophlebitis
MDD (pair no.)
1	36	M	11	6.96	Diphenhydramine	Undetermined
2	41	M	19	6.24	Clean	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
3	30	M	18	6.91	Ethanol	Suicide by gun shot to chest
4	34	F	27	6.91	Ethanol, CO, alprazolam	Suicide by CO poisoning
5	45	M	29	6.27	Ethanol	Suicide by gun shot to chest
6	40	M	25	6.86	Morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, diphenhydramine	Heart disease
7	46	M	17	6.26	Clean	Homicide
8	54	M	23	6.24	Phenobarbital, phenytoin, CO	Suicide by CO poisoning
9	42	F	24	6.62	Acetaminophen, propoxyphene	Suicide by overdose of propoxyphene and acetaminophen
10	69	F	26	6.85	Ethanol	Suicide by gun shot to head
11	74	M	25	6.67	Ethanol	Suicide by gun shot to head
12	81	M	33	6.78	Clean	Suicide by drowning
13	60	M	20	6.31	Ethanol	Suicide by gun shot to chest
14	42	M	20	6.8	Clean	Suicide by gun shot to chest

M, male; F, female; PMI, postmortem interval; MDD, major depressive disorder; CO, carbon monoxide.