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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Psychiatry. 2011 May 18;199(1):43–48. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.087924

Table 3.

Logistic regression analysis of the interaction between War events and 5-HTTLPR genotype, stratified by age group, in predicting life time depression.

Models Wald p OR ( 95 % IC)
War Events×5-HTTLPR×Age 10.01 0.002 1.2 (1.1–1.4)
War Events
 <35 years* 10.66 0.001 1.73 (1.25–2.4)
 ≥ 35 years** 2.3 0.129 1.33 (0.92–1.91)
5-HTTLPR
 <35 years* 1.81 0.178 0.86 (0.69–1.07)
 ≥ 35 years** 0.69 0.405 0.91 (0.73–1.13)
War Events ×5-HTTLPR
 <35 years* 10.44 0.001 1.29 (1.11–1.5)
 ≥ 35 years** 3.34 0.067 1.17 (0.98–1.39)
Association between war events and depression
Stratified by genotype :
SS
 <35 years 8.87 0.002 2.91 (1.44–5.88)
 ≥ 35 years†† 2.88 0.089 2.02 (0.9–4.44)
SL
 <35 years 3.92 0.047 1.57 (1.04–2.45)
 ≥ 35 years‡‡ 0.62 0.430 1.22 (0.74–2.03)
LL
 <35 years§ 1.23 0.267 1.55 (0.72–3.36)
 ≥ 35 years§§ 0.07 0.785 0.89 (0.4–2.01)

All models were adjusted by age, gender, education, disability, cognitive functions and recent life-events.

*

n=442,

**

n=438;

n=120,

††

n=119;

n=224,

‡‡

n=220;

§

n=99,

§§

n=98