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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aging Ment Health. 2012;16(6):753–762. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2012.678478

Table 1.

Demographic and cognitive differences between depressed participants and controls.

Variable Depressed
Mean(SD)
N=238
Control
Mean(SD
N=146
F or χ2 p-value
Age 70.03(7.5) 70.43(6.26) .281 p =.59
Gender % female 67.7% 70.7% .389 p = .31
%White 89.1% 85.7% 0.99 p = .20
MMSE score (baseline) 28.31(1.7) 28.92(1.3) 14.17 p < .01
Years of education 14.2(2.03) 15.41(1.76) 35.72 p < .01
Left hippocampal volume (baseline) 2.93mL (.41) 2.95mL (.42) 0.131 p =0.72
Right hippocampal volume (baseline) 3.07mL (.42) 3.11mL (.43) 0.505 p =.48
Cerebrum volume (baseline) 1149.91 mL (130) 1141.19 mL (122.22) 0.42 p =.52

Significant differences are bolded.