Table 1.

Characteristics of randomized subjects in two fluoxetine-discontinuation studies.

	Study 1		Study 2
Characteristic	Fluoxetine (N=299)	Placebo (N=96)	Fluoxetine (N=134)	Placebo (N=135)
Age	39.6 ± 10.2	40.0 ± 10.5	39.8 ± 11.3	38.5 ± 11.1
% Male	34.4	20.8	50.0	31.7
Baseline mHAM-D	20.7 ± 3.5	21.5 ± 3.7	17.7 ± 5.1	17.2 ± 4.5
mHAM-D at randomization	2.9 ± 2.2	2.7 ± 2.3	4.8 ± 3.0	5.3 ± 3.5

Note: Age and gender data were only available for a subset of subjects in Study 2, N=82 in each group. mHAM-D data reflect the entire randomized sample.