Table 1. Demographic and clinical details of male subjects.
| Peripheral blood | Prefrontal cortex | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suicide (n = 130) |
Control (n = 130) |
pa | Suicide (n = 10) |
Control (n = 16) |
pa | |
| Average age in years (± s.d.) | 46.2 (14.0) | 45.4 (13.4) | 0.526 | 51.7 (17.5) | 55.9 (18.3) | 0.496 |
| PMI in hours (± s.d.) | 20.3 (10.5) | 15.1 (7.1) | 17.7 (11.2) | 0.777 | ||
| Suicide method | ||||||
| Hanging | 92 | 1 | ||||
| Jumping from a height | 19 | 3 | ||||
| Gas suffocation | 16 | 1 | ||||
| Jumping in front of a vehicle | 1 | |||||
| Self-inflicted penetrating wounds | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Drowning | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Overdosing | 2 | |||||
| Comorbid psychiatric disease | ||||||
| Depressive disorders | 28 | 2 | ||||
| Bipolar disorders | 4 | |||||
| Schizophrenia | 13 | 1 | ||||
| Anxiety disorders | 6 | |||||
| Personality disorders | 2 | |||||
| Alcohol-related disorders | 2 | |||||
| Mental disorders | 1 | |||||
| Unknown | 7 | 3 | ||||
Abbreviations: s.d., standard deviation; PMI, post-mortem interval.
a p-values were calculated using Mann-Whitney tests.