Table 7.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics
| Variables | Healthy subjects (n=37)
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Schizophrenic subjects (n=42)
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| HNKc (n=20) | HKc (n=17) | SNKc (n=21)
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SKc (n=21)
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| SNKch (10 mg/day) (n=10) | SNKcr (5 mg/day) (n=11) | SKch (10 mg/day) (n=10) | SKcr (5 mg/day) (n=11) | |||
| Age (years) | 38.4±92 | 36.64±1.0 | 39.9±1.4 | 40.18±0.6 | 42.1±0.56 | 43.09±0.6 |
| Onset of disease (paranoid schizophrenia with depression) (years) | 0.0±0.0 | 0.0±0.0 | 1.5±0.16 | 2.09±0.25 | 3.5±0.30 | 3.36±0.33 |
| Previous readmission to hospital (times) | 0.0±0.0 | 0.0±0.0 | 1.6±0.16 | 1.54±0.15 | 2.5±0.16 | 2.54±0.15 |
| Family history of mental illness | No family history of mental and psychiatric illness for all subjects involved in the current study | |||||
| Sex | All subjects involved in the current study were males | |||||
Note: Each value represents as mean ± SEM.
Abbreviations: S, schizophrenic; K, khat; c, chewing; N, non; r, risperidone; h, haloperidol; SEM, standard error of the mean.