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. 2018 Mar 28;25(5):715–726. doi: 10.1177/1352458518767051

Table 2.

Structural MRI data from depressed and non-depressed patients with MS and healthy controls.

DMS (n = 22) nDMS (n = 21) HCs (n = 12) DMS vs nDMS DMS vs HCs nDMS vs HCs
Difference (CI) p value p corr. Difference (CI) p value p corr. Difference (CI) p value p corr.
NWMV (mL) 667.68 (34.89) 706.98 (47.90) 739.46 (31.59) −38.08 (−63.21 to −12.95) <0.01 <0.01 −68.53 (−99.02 to −38.03) <0.001 <0.001 −30.45 (−60.00 to −0.90) 0.04 0.07
NGMV (mL) 745.76 (56.61) 715.45 (50.63) 767.45 (37.74) 13.75 (−8.81 to 36.31) 0.23 0.31 −42.56 (69.94 to −15.18) <0.01 <0.01 −56.30 (−82.84 to −29.77) <0.001 <0.01
T2LL (mL) 5.69 (5.92) 7.45 (5.43) −1.57 (−5.07 to 1.92) 0.37 0.46
Hippocampus L (mL) 4.74 (0.68) 4.66 (0.69) 5.60 (0.61) −0.01 (−0.41 to 0.40) 0.97 0.97 −0.96 (−1.45 to −0.47) <0.001 <0.01 −0.96(−1.43 to −0.48) <0.001 <0.01
Hippocampus R (mL) 4.80 (0.76) 4.51 (0.73) 5.36 (0.86) 0.19 (−0.28 to 0.65) 0.42 0.48 −0.67 (−1.24 to −0.11) 0.02 0.03 −0.86 (−1.40 to −0.31) <0.01 <0.01
Amygdala L (mL) 1.55 (0.36) 1.59 (0.32) 1.82 (0.24) −0.08 (−0.28 to 0.11) 0.40 0.47 −0.31 (−0.54 to −0.07) 0.01 0.02 −0.22 (−0.45 to 0.00) 0.06 0.08
Amygdala R (mL) 1.62 (0.41) 1.50 (0.29) 1.96 (0.27) 0.10 (−0.10 to 0.30) 0.32 0.42 −0.31 (−0.55 to −0.07) 0.01 0.02 −0.41 (−0.65 to −0.18) <0.01 <0.01
Thalamus L (mL) 9.61 (1.00) 9.39 (1.39) 10.82 (0.85) 0.03 (−0.60 to 0.67) 0.91 0.95 −1.35 (−2.12 to −0.58) <0.001 <0.01 −1.39 (−2.13 to −0.64) <0.001 <0.01
Thalamus R (mL) 9.33 (1.05) 9.06 (1.20) 10.35 (0.58) 0.07 (−0.50 to 0.64) 0.80 0.86 −1.21 (−1.90 to −0.51) <0.001 <0.01 −1.28 (−1.95 to −0.61) <0.001 <0.01

CI: confidence interval; corr.: FDR-corrected p value; DMS: depressed multiple sclerosis patients; HCs: healthy controls; L: left; MS: multiple sclerosis; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; NGMV: normalized gray matter volume; nDMS: non-depressed multiple sclerosis patients; NWMV: normalized white matter volume; R: right; T2LL: T2-weighted lesion load.

Displayed data are mean (standard deviation) values.