TABLE 1.

Cohort characteristics.

	Patients with masculine depression (N = 81)			Patients with non-masculine depression (N = 82)			Healthy control subjects (N = 176)			Patients with masculine depression vs. patients with non-masculine depression		Patient with masculine depression vs. controls		Patients with non-masculine depression vs. controls
	N	M/F	SEM	N	M/F	SEM	N	M/F	SEM	χ2 or t	p	χ2 or t	p	χ2 or t	p
% Women	81	44		82	44		176	51		0.0	0.944	1.0	0.319	1.2	0.279
% Smoker	81	47		81	30		175	6		5.1	0.024	61.7	<0.001	27.5	<0.001
% Living in a current partnership	79	48		77	55		176	68		0.6	0.421	9.3	0.002	4.3	0.038
% Married	79	28		80	48		175	27		6.5	0.011	0.0	0.945	9.9	0.002
% Divorced	79	14		78	21		176	14		1.2	0.274	0.0	0.953	1.6	0.207
Age (years)	81	36.4	1.6	82	45.7	1.6	176	37.2	1.0	–4.1	<0.001	–0.4	0.684	4.5	<0.001
BDI-II score	80	37.3	1.2	81	28.7	1.1	174	3.4	0.3	5.2	<0.001	27.9	<0.001	21.5	<0.001
MDRS-22 score	81	2.6	0.1	82	1.1	0.0	176	0.4	0.0	15.2	<0.001	24.2	<0.001	14.5	<0.001

The table shows the valid number of subjects analyzed (N), means (M) or relative frequencies (F), standard errors of the mean (SEM), and the results of χ² and Student’s t-tests. BDI- II, Beck Depression Inventory-II; MDRS-22, Male Depression Risk Scale 22 items. p < 0.05 in bold.