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. 2020 Jun 4;12(11):10290–10299. doi: 10.18632/aging.103248

Table 3. Sex differences of clinical symptoms and cognitive functions in the patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls.

Male Female Sex p Genotype p Sex×gene p
TT CT CC TT CT CC
Patients with SCZ
Cognitive functions
Immediate memory 56.3±14.5 58.0±15.7 58.4±16.8 64.0±13.9 68.8±22.9 58.7±13.9 0.017 0.06 0.05
Visuospatial/constructional 75.3±17.9 76.5±18.2 78.0±20.1 81.0±18.1 83.9±19.1 84.9±22.3 0.010 0.58 0.95
Language 81.0±14.6 80.7±15.4 80.3±16.6 83.3±16.3 88.9±15.8 80.7±15.0 0.084 0.23 0.24
Attention 67.5±17.3 70.0±16.7 71.1±18.6 83.0±15.2 78.3±17.1 71.5±17.8 0.001 0.46 0.05
Delayed memory 62.3±17.7 67.2±19.1 65.0±19.2 76.4±20.3 79.3±23.0 67.9±17.4 <0.001 0.04 0.26
Total score 61.7±13.4 63.5±14.6 64.4±14.8 71.8±14.4 75.0±19.0 65.9±14.9 <0.001 0.22 0.14
Clinical symptoms
Positive symptom 11.2±4.5 11.1±4.6 11.5±4.4 13.2±5.6 14.9±6.6 14.0±6.7 <0.001 0.37 0.24
Negative symptom 23.5±8.0 23.7±8.2 23.2±8.0 23.2±7.3 18.2±9.0 21.0±8.1 0.002 0.031 0.015
General psychopathology 25.0±5.5 24.7±5.6 25.5±6.2 28.8±6.3 27.4±5.6 28.8±8.5 <0.001 0.27 0.72
PANSS total score 59.7±14.5 59.5±14.6 60.2±14.7 65.2±14.6 60.5±14.8 63.7±19.4 0.04 0.29 0.39
Healthy controls
Cognitive functions
Immediate memory 74.9±17.0 76.2±15.3 74.4±15.7 73.3±17.3 77.8±18.3 74.6±20.0 0.97 0.32 0.74
Visuospatial/constructional 80.4±15.1 82.1±16.6 80.3±14.7 77.1±14.9 79.7±16.9 77.4±12.2 0.11 0.44 0.97
Language 95.2±9.1 94.0±12.0 97.5±13.4 93.0±14.1 93.3±13.3 92.3±16.5 0.08 0.80 0.48
Attention 87.5±21.0 90.5±16.3 87.9±20.5 83.5±22.0 85.9±22.4 92.9±15.6 0.61 0.27 0.24
Delayed memory 89.2±12.5 84.7±14.4 88.7±15.5 85.0±16.1 87.1±16.3 85.6±14.5 0.31 0.79 0.12
Total score 80.6±13.6 81.1±13.1 81.9±15.2 77.5±15.9 80.2±16.6 80.0±15.1 0.26 0.60 0.83