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. 2023 Jan 19;13:15. doi: 10.1038/s41398-023-02308-6

Table 3.

Hazard Ratios (HR) from survival analyses investigating the effect of the Polygenic Score (PGS) for general musicality on registry-based mental health diagnoses and standardized beta coefficients (β) and p-values from linear regression analyses investigating the effect of PGS music on self-reported depressive and psychotic-like experiences.

Registry-based diagnosis of Self-reported
Depression Anxiety Schizophrenia Bipolar Stress-related Depressive symptoms Psychotic-like experiences Neuroticism
Ndiagnosed 491 396 21 73 330 4,414 3,831 5,230
Polygenic score HR P-value HR P-value HR P-value HR P-value HR P-value β P-value β P-value β P-value
Music 1.10* 0.04 1.05 0.34 0.86 0.51 1.06 0.64 0.95 0.41 −0.01 0.71 0.00 0.83 −0.01 0.38
Sensitivity analyses
Music 1.15* 0.03 1.05 0.48 0.96 0.88 1.18 0.35 1.07 0.44 −0.01 0.53 0.00 0.74 −0.01 0.41

**Adjusted p-value < 0.016, *p-value < 0.05.

Number of cases receiving the diagnoses or sample sizes are reported at the top.

The lower part of the table displays the results of the sensitivity analyses including amount of lifetime music practice as a covariate. Significant effects in bold.