Table 1.

Demographic and tissue parameters of the postmortem brain samples

CIBERSAM tissues	Patients	Controls	p
Gender, n	males, 25	males, 11	N/A
Age of death, years. Mean (SD)	63.84 (16.17)	71.73 (10.92)	0.15
PMI, hours. Mean (SD)	8.00 (10.08)	8.82 (4.94)	0.80
Brain pH. Mean (SD)	7.12 (0.15)	7.00 (0.20)	0.05
Cause of death	6 Respiratory disease, 12 other medical conditions, 7 suicide	2 Cardiac, 4 Pneumonia, 5 other medical conditions	N/A
STANLEY RNA	Patients	Controls	p
Gender, n	males, 23	males, 25	N/A
Age of death, years. Mean (SD)	41.35 (8.53)	45.08 (7.82)	0.12
PMI, hours. Mean (SD)	30.13 (16.09)	27.88 (12.33)	0.59
Brain pH. Mean (SD)	6.42 (0.26)	6.66 (0.24)	0.0017*
Cause of death	11 cardiac disease, 7 other medical conditions, 1 accident, 4 suicide	23 cardiac, 2 other medical conditions	N/A

Mean ± standard deviation (SD) are shown for each variable; PMI, postmortem interval; N/A, not applicable; p value obtained when comparing patients and controls using the unpaired t test; * p < 0.05