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Published in final edited form as: Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 27;26(9):5161–5170. doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01020-5

Table 3.

Comparison of depressive syndromes (CES-D-10) prevalence between aspirin and placebo groups each year of follow-up.

n Aspirin n (%) Placebo n (%) Intervention effect# (95%CI)
CES-D-10 ≥ 8 1
Baseline 1,879 925 (49.2) 954 (50.8)
Year 1 1,734 483 (56.4) 439 (50.0) 6.5 (1.8, 11.2)
Year 2 729 198 (51.7) 171 (49.4) 1.7 (−5.1, 8.5)
Year 3 1,404 360 (52.2) 369 (51.6) 1.0 (−4.2, 6.1)
Year 4 932 227 (52.1) 241 (48.6) 3.8 (−2.4, 10.0)
Year 5 611 154 (53.9) 171 (52.6) 1.1 (−6.4, 8.5)
Year 6 194 51 (58.6) 53 (49.5) 5.1 (−7.6, 17.8)
CES-D-10 ≥ 10 2
Baseline 954 470 (49.3) 484 (50.7)
Year 1 868 226 (52.3) 185 (42.4) 10.1 (3.5, 16.7)
Year 2 369 86 (44.6) 79 (44.9) −1.3 (−10.8, 8.1)
Year 3 687 164 (47.0) 141 (41.7) 4.9 (−2.3, 12.2)
Year 4 458 109 (48.9) 100 (42.6) 6.2 (−2.5, 14.8)
Year 5 290 72 (50.7) 64 (43.2) 9.6 (−1.4, 20.6)
Year 6 93 22 (55.0) 23 (43.4) 18.0 (−0.8, 36.9)
CES-D-10 ≥ 12 3
Baseline 524 263 (50.2) 261 (49.8)
Year 1 474 113 (46.9) 87 (37.3) 12.7 (3.8, 21.6)
Year 2 200 43 (40.2) 36 (38.7) −4.5 (−17.4, 8.4)
Year 3 366 82 (42.7) 52 (29.9) 11.6 (15.9, 21.5)
Year 4 243 63 (50.4) 40 (33.9) 9.8 (−2.1, 21.7)
Year 5 146 27 (39.1) 28 (36.4) 11.2 (−4.5, 27.0)
Year 6 44 7 (43.8) 11 (39.3) 5.4 (24.4, 35.1)
1

P-value and (test statistic) for joint test of intervention effect across visit years: Chi-square 8·74, df 6, P=0·189.

2

P-value and (test statistic) for joint test of intervention effect across visit years: Chi-square 14·23, df 6, P=0·027.

3

P-value and (test statistic) for joint test of intervention effect across visit years: Chi-square 13·84, df 6, P=0·032.

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Aspirin effect: Model-based marginal prevalence difference (aspirin vs placebo) at follow-up years; estimated form a GEE with binary outcome and logistic link including treatment allocation and follow-up visit as factor and two-way interaction between treatment allocation and follow-up visit.