Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of control subjects and patients with SCZ in the Bari cohort.

Characteristics	Control	Schizophrenia	Statistic	p-Value
Subjects (total number)	39	40	−	−
Gender (M/F)	15/24	22/18	χ2 = 2.17 (df = 1)	0.141
Age (years, median [IQR])	28 [24,25,28–32]	33.50 [27.25–54.5]	t = 4.021 (df = 78)	<0.001

Abbreviations: M/F: number of males/females; IQR: Interquartile Range (i.e., first-third quartiles); df: degrees of freedom. For each variable, statistical tests adopted to detect any significant difference between patients with schizophrenia and control subjects along with respective p-values are also reported.