Table 1.
Pair | Control Subjects | MDD subjects | |||||||||
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Sex/Race/Age (Yr) | PMI | pH | Cause of death | Age/Race/Age (Yr) | PMI | pH | Cause of death | Age of onset | Suicide | Episodes single/multiple | |
Females | |||||||||||
1 | F/B/51 | 22 | 6.3 | Heart | F/W/56 | 17 | 6.7 | Atherosclerotic aneurism | 37 | No | M |
2 | F/W/83 | 25 | 6.7 | Heart | F/W/87 | 24 | 6.6 | Aortic aneurism | 46 | No | M |
3 | F/W/49 | 29 | 6.6 | Heart disease | F/W/48 | 24 | 6.1 | CO poisoning | 34 | Suicide | M |
4 | F/B/80 | 21 | 6.8 | HCD | F/W/72 | 19 | 6.6 | Drowning | 33 | Suicide | S |
5 | F/W/46 | 24 | 6.3 | Homicide | F/W/50 | 28 | 6.5 | Heart disease | 30 | No | M |
6 | F/W/67 | 16 | 6.4 | Heart | F/W/67 | 24 | 5.6 | Acute bronchopneumonia/diabetic mellitus | 40 | No | S |
Males | |||||||||||
7 | M/B/53 | 23 | 6.8 | Electrocution | M/W/65 | 30 | 6.3 | SIGSW to chest | 65 | Suicide | S |
8 | M/W/78 | 22 | 6.8 | Severe ACD w/MI and cardiomegaly. | M/W/82 | 12 | 6.5 | CO | 73 | Suicide | M |
9 | M/W/74 | 21 | 6.6 | Abdominal aortic aneurysm | M/W/64 | 26 | 6.9 | SIGSW head | 63 | No | S |
10 | M/H/43 | 22 | 6.6 | Crushing impacts to head, trunk and extremities | M/W/47 | 11 | 6.8 | SIGSW head | 20 | Suicide | M |
11 | M/W/37 | 17 | 6.5 | acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis due to choledocholithiasis | M/W/36 | 11 | 6.9 | Undetermined | 35 | No | M |
12 | M/W/77 | 24 | 6.6 | Heart | M/W/81 | 33 | 6.8 | Drowning | 81 | Suicide | S |
MDD, Major depressive disorder; F, female; M, male; W, white; B, black; H, Hispanic; PMI, post-mortem interval in hours; Episodes (S, single; M, multiple); HCD, hypertensive cardiac disease; ACD, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease; CO, carbon monoxide; MI, Myocardial Infarctions; SIGSW, self-inflicted gunshot wound.