Figure 1.

Adjusted mean inflammatory levels across medication groups and sex based on analyses of covariance (ANCOVA) adjusted for age, education, smoking status, alcohol intake, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, number of other chronic diseases, statins and anti-inflammatory medication; to normalize distributions C-reactive protein (CRP), Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) were ln-transformed, for interpretation purposes presented means were back transformed. Abbreviations: IDS, inventory of depressive symptoms score; SNRI, serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor; SSRI, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; TCA, tricyclic antidepressant; TeCA, tetracyclic antidepressant. ¹Current depressive disorder and IDS ⩾25 without medication use (=reference); only significant differences from reference are shown: ^*P<0.10; ^**P<0.05.