. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2010 May 7;126(3):395–401. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.04.004

TABLE 1.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of depressed study subjects and normal controls.

	Controls (N=25)		Remitters (N= 22)		Non-Remitters (N= 20)		Analysis
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	F	p
Age (years)	70.68	5.82	69.61	4.71	71.18	6.95	0.39	.67
Gender (% men)	36.0	-	36.4	-	45.0	-		.64
Education (years)	16.40	2.84	16.36	2.72	16.65	2.41	0.07	.88
Baseline HDRS	1.72	1.82	22.29	4.01	22.10	4.04	288.51	.00
Hypertension %	40		45		40		chi²=0.16	.91
Age of Onset	N/A	N/A	57.0	15.33	58.0	16.80	.0.03	.86
Number of Previous	N/A	N/A	2.67	3.23	2.71	1.45	0.01	.96
Episodes
Baseline MMSE	28.64	0.91	28.68	1.39	28.06	1.26	1.69	.19

Note: HDRS = 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; MMSE = Mini Mental State Exam