Table 1.
Characteristic of patients and controls.
| Healthy controls
(n=51) |
Patients
(n=18) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | n (%) | Mean (SD) Median (IQR) |
n (%) | |
| Age (years) | 56.2 (12.1) | 51.6 (15.6) | ||
| Sex (female n, (%)) | 30 (59%) | 8 (44%) | ||
| Ethnicity (white n, (%)) | 50 (98%) | 17 (94%) | ||
| Handedness (left/mixed) | 2/4 (4%/8%) | 1/0 (6%/0%) | ||
| Years in FT education | 14.7 (3.3) | 13.5 (3.2) | ||
| Illness | ||||
| Bipolar disorder (n, %) | – | 2 (11%) | ||
| Episode duration (months) | – | Median 20.5 (IQR 7.75–46.5) | ||
| MGHS score | – | 4.4 (3.2) | ||
| IQ | 110.7 (10.2) | 108.6 (11.5) | ||
| MMSE | 29.8 (0.5) | 29.0 (1.2)a | ||
| MADRS | 0.9 (1.5) | 33.7 (7.3)b | ||
| COWAT category fluency | 23.2 (4.7) | 15.7 (6.0)b | ||
| Digit Span backward | 4.9 ( 1.2) | 3.8 ( 1.1)b | ||
COWAT: Controlled Oral Word Association Test; FT: full time; IQ: intelligence quotient; IQR: interquartile range; MADRS: Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale; MGHS: Massachusetts General Hospital Scale; MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination; SD: standard deviation.
a
p<0.05, bp⩽0.001 vs controls.