Table 1.
Demogaphics and Clinical Characteristics of PTSD patients and combat controls
| PTSD (n=8) | TC (n=8) | |||||
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| avg | stdev | avg | stdev | p | ||
| age | 47.5 | 10.7 | 41.3 | 10.8 | ns | |
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| Race | caucasian | 8 | 8 | |||
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| Combat | Vietnam | 6 | 3 | |||
| Gulf War | 2 | 5 | ||||
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| CAPS | int | 21 | 7.5 | na | na | |
| ar | 31 | 15 | na | na | ||
| av | 23 | 8.6 | na | na | ||
| total | 75.5 | 27.7 | na | na | ||
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| Comorbidity | MDD lifetime | 6 | 3 | |||
| MDD current | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Dysthymia | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Panic plus agora | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Gen Anx dis | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Soc Phobia | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Past Alc Dep | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Past Drug Dep | 5 | 3 | ||||
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| UPSIT | 32.8 | 5.3 | 35.3 | 3.2 | ns | |
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| smoking Hx | 5 | 3 | ||||
| current smoker | 0 | 1 | ||||
| years (avg) | 8.1 | 8.3 | ||||