TABLE 2.

Clinical description of the study population.

	BD (n = 53)			UD (n = 41)			HC (n = 84)			M–W test
	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median	BD vs. UD	BD vs. HC	UD vs. HC
Age	41.91	13.87	43.00	43.49	15.99	47.00	43.11	10.91	40.00	0.616	0.845	0.716
Years of education	13.22	2.87	12.00	13.72	2.83	12.00	15.86	2.06	17.00	0.488	1.047E−06	1.712E−04
BDI	34.47	9.44	35.50	30.23	10.83	29.00	4.04	2.95	4.00	0.037	1.936E−29	6.280E−27
BMI	24.46	4.88	23.10	24.89	4.96	24.16	23.80	3.20	23.62	0.679	0.764	0.428
Onset of illness	27.57	9.80	26.00	35.16	14.49	33.00				0.013
Number of hospitalizations	7.35	15.76	3.00	1.89	2.16	1.00				2.470E−04
Duration of current hospitalization (days)	50.64	24.92	50.00	43.32	16.02	43.00				0.283
HDRS Pre-T	25.93	6.60	24.00	25.50	4.76	25.00				0.783
HDRS Post-T	3.17	2.50	3.00	4.41	4.19	3.00				0.316
W-P test (HDRS Pre-T vs. Post-T)			7.623E−09			5.392E−07

BD, bipolar disorder; UD, unipolar disorder; HC, healthy control; n, number; SD, standard deviation; M–W test, Mann–Whitney U test; W-P test, Wilcoxon pair test.

Significant p-values are indicated in bold (significance considered p < 0.05).