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Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2010 May 26;68(10):942–949. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.04.019

Table 1.

Baseline demographic and psychiatric characteristics of study participants

Characteristic	Interferon-alpha(n=19)	Control(n=12)	p-value
Age (mean, SD)	48.6 (5.8)	47.0 (7.3)	0.53
Gender (n, %)
Males	12 (63.2)	5 (41.7)
Females	7 (36.8)	7 (58.3)
Race (n, %)
Caucasian	8 (42.1)	5 (41.7)
African American	9 (47.4)	6 (50.0)
Other	2 (10.5)	1 (8.3)
BMI	30.0 (4.1)	28.3 (5.1)	0.32
Past MD (n, %)	6 (31.6)	0 (0)	0.06^†
Past Substance Abuse (n, %)	12 (63.1)	7 (58.3)	1.00^†

SD-standard deviation; BMI- body mass index; MD- Major Depression;

^†

Fisher’s exact test