Table 1.
Summary of demographic and tissue collection data for cases in this study.
| Gender (M/F) | Sui | Age (years) |
DI (years) |
PMI (hours) |
pH |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | |||
| Controls | 11/9 | 0 | 50 | 4.1 | 42 | 3.9 | 6.29 | 0.05 | ||
| Schizophrenia | 11/9 | 5 | 51 | 4.1 | 21 | 2.6 | 40 | 2.6 | 6.30 | 0.05 |
| Bipolar disorders | 5/4 | 1 | 60 | 3.3 | 20 | 4.6 | 38 | 4.7 | 6.33 | 0.06 |
| Major depressive disorders | 5/5 | 8 | 52 | 5.2 | 17 | 3.3 | 49 | 5.1 | 6.4 | 0.01 |
| Suicide completers | 8/6 | 40 | 4.2 | 10 | 2.6 | 48 | 3.8 | 6.39 | 0.08 | |
| Non-suicide including controls | 25/20 | 56 | 2.3 | 40 | 2.2 | 6.30 | 0.03 | |||
| Non-suicide without controls | 14/11 | 60 | 2.4 | 26 | 2.8 | 38 | 2.5 | 6.29 | 0.05 | |
Sui: suicide completion; PMI: postmortem interval; DI: duration of illness; SEM: standard error of the mean.