Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of unemployment and employed patients stratified by sex

	Unemployed patients (114)			Employed patients (146)
Variable	Female (n = 95)	Male (n = 19)	p value	Female (n = 100)	Male (n = 46)	p value
Age at the time of analysis (mean ± SD), years	42.50 ± 1.37	37.00 ± 3.62	0.278	40.13 ± 1.04	42.61 ± 1.68	0.321
EDSS score, median (IQR)	2.5 (0–7.5)	3.0 (1.0–7.0)	0.401	2.0 (0–7.0)	2.0 (0–7.0)	0.033
Disease duration (mean ± SD), years	8.72 ± 0.76	10.06 ± 1.36	0.177	8.35 ± 0.63	9.91 ± 1.14	0.412
Years of school education (mean ± SD) years	10.70 ± 0.36	11.71 ± 1.00	0.330	14.07 ± 0.36	13.04 ± 0.54	0.170
Patients with impaired CVLTII test results, n (%)	40 (42.1)	8 (42.1)	0.659	28 (28)	16 (34.8)	0.407
Patients with impaired SDMT test results, n (%)	39 (41)	6 (31.5)	0.441	24 (24)	16 (34.8)	0.175
Patients with impaired BVMTR test results, n (%)	32 (33.6)	6 (31.5)	0.859	24 (24)	14 (30.4)	0.410
Patients in treatment with DMTs, n (%)	54 (56.8)	11 (57.9)	0.933	39 (39)	13 (28.3)	0.208
Age at diagnosis (mean ± SD), years	32.80 ± 1.20	29.02 ± 3.31	0.174	33.03 ± 1.01	33.88 ± 1.74	0.911