Table 3. Correlation of telomere length and mitochondrial DNA copy number with between symptoms severity at baseline in schizophrenia. All models were adjusted for age, gender, illness duration.

Variables	Baseline natural transformed telomere length		Baseline mtDNA copy number
	β	P value	β	P value
PANSS subscales
Positive syndromes	0.411	0.818	−3.389	0.069
Negative syndromes	−0.439	0.855	−1.800	0.477
General syndromes	0.252	0.935	−0.026	0.993
PANSS total syndromes	0.224	0.967	−5.215	0.357