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. 2015 Jul 21;6:1004. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01004

Table 1.

Patient demographics and descriptive variables.

Included sample (n = 135) Excluded sample (n = 52) t/χ 2 df P
Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Age (years) 72.9 (9.7) 76.5 (8.8) 2.56 109.1a 0.01
Education (years) 13.9 (3.0) 13.1 (2.6) −1.21 156 >0.05
Race (% White) 62.2% 61.5% 0.01 1 >0.05
GDS Score 1.5 (1.4) 1.4 (1.4) −0.29 182 >0.05
GPM Score 50.0 (27.8) 46.1 (29.5) −0.78 175 >0.05
CIRS Total Score 22.0 (5.4) 23.4 (5.6) 1.44 175 >0.05
BMI 27.0 (5.5) 28.2 (10.5) 0.74 50.88a >0.05
Sleep Duration (% of respondents) 0.37 179 >0.05
            Less than 5 h 32.9% 32.6%
            5 to 6 h 20.0% 21.7%
            6 to 7 h 20.0% 21.7%
            Greater than 7 h 28.1% 23.9%
CRP [median (25%ile, 75%ile)] 19.0 (4.4, 59.1) 19.9 (5.8, 65.4) 0.22 183 >0.05
sICAM [median (25%ile, 75%ile)] 263 (221, 337) 247 (197, 330) −1.39 183 >0.05
TNFα [median (25%ile, 75%ile)] 1.9 (1.5, 2.4) 1.9 (1.4, 2.6) −0.46 183 >0.05
IL6 [median (25%ile, 75%ile)] 9.4 (5.3, 16.6) 10.7 (5.4, 20.5) 0.53 185 >0.05
MMSE Score 25.8 (3.4) 24.5 (4.3) −1.93 76.62a >0.05

Race dichotomously coded as non-Hispanic white = 1, all other = 0; GDS, Geriatric Depression Scale, modified 5-item version; GPM, Geriatric Pain Measure; CIRS, Cumulative Illness Rating Scale; BMI, body mass index; CRP, C-reactive protein (mg/L); sICAM, soluble Intercellular Adhesion Molecule (ng/mL); TNFα, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (pg/mL); IL6, Interleukin-6 (pg/mL).

a

degrees of freedom and t-statistic were adjusted for non-homogeneity of variance.