Table1.

Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) patients during depressive episodes and healthy controls.

	BD (n=18)	Controls (n=24)	p
Gender
Male/female, n (%)	5 (27.8)/13 (72.2)	14 (58.3)/10 (41.7)	0.03*,a
Age, years	29.1 (±4.9)	27.6 (±6.6)	0.44b
BD subtype
Subtype I/subtype II, n (%)	5 (27.8)/13 (72.2)
Illness duration, years	2.7 (±1.6)
History of Psychosis, n (%)	1 (5.6)
HAM-D	22.7 (±3.8)
YMRS	7.5 (±6.7)

HAM-D–Hamilton Depression Scale, YMRS–Young Mania Rating Scale.

^*Significantly different.

^aChi-square test.

^bStudent’s t test.