Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of the sample

	Patients		Control		t value	p value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	42.88	14.35	43.1	13.68	−0.11	0.913
Age of onset	26.59	11.77
Total episodes	10.97	12.37
Manic episodes	2.54	3.98
Depressive episodes	4.89	5.27
Mixed episodes	0.48	1.15
Hypomanic episodes	3.15	4.75
Suicide attempts	1.74	0.44
Number of hospitalization	1.54	1.58
HAM-D	3.57	3.7
YMRS	1.94	3.23

SD, standard deviation.