Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the samples.

From: White matter deficits in cocaine use disorder: convergent evidence from in vivo diffusion tensor imaging and ex vivo proteomic analysis

 

Neuroimaging sample

CUD (n = 75) (mean/%, SD/N)

Controls (n = 58) (mean/%, SD/N)

Statistics (df)

p

Sociodemographic

 Age (years)

32.86 (7.08)

27.98 (7.12)

t(131) = −3.93

>0.0001

 Sex (male)

49.3 (37)

36.2 (21)

x2(1)= 2.29

0.130

 Ethnicity (whites)

44.6 (33)

65.5 (36)

x2(3)= 5.95

0.114

 Education (years)

7.39 (2.75)

11.33 (1.23)

W = 3768

>0.0001

ASI-6 (standardized T scores)

 Drugs

52.08 (7.13)

-

  

 Family/child

55.96 (10.01)

-

  

 Alcohol

50.34 (8.85)

-

  

 Psychiatric status

50.50 (7.74)

-

  

 Medical

43.42 (8.11)

-

  

 Legal status

49.89 (5.71)

-

  

 Employment

38.94 (4.29)

-

  

 Family/social support

50.94 (12.15)

-

  

 Family/social problems

52.41 (8.96)

-

  

SCID-I (SUD–current)

 Cannabis

29.3 (22)

-

  

 Snorted cocaine

14.7 (11)

-

  

 Inhalant

1.3 (1)

-

  

 Tobacco

73.3 (55)

5.1 (3)

x2(1) = 61.79

>0.0001

 Alcohol

29.3 (22)

-

  

Years of regular drug use—mean (SD)

 Tobacco

5.82 (9.10)

3.90 (8.8)

W = 1102

>0.0001

 Alcohol

6.64 (7.66)

0.25 (0.94)

-

-

 Cannabis

7.93 (7.63)

0.10 (0.45)

-

-

 Cocaine

8.18 (6.38)

0 (0)

-

-

 

Proteomics sample

CUD (n = 8) (mean/%, SD/N)

Controls (n = 12) (mean/%, SD/N)

Statistics (df)

p

Sociodemographic

 Age (years)

45.7 (9.72)

51.7 (13.81)

W = 61.50

0.082

 Sex (male)

62.5 (5)

83.3 (10)

x2(1) = 1.11

0.292

 Ethnicity (whites)

25 (2)

58.3 (7)

Fisher exact

0.197

 Post-mortem intervals (hours)

24.1 (8)

29.4 (8.4)

W = 67

0.190

  1. SD standard deviation, t student t test statistics; χ2 chi-squared, W Wilcoxon rank-sum test statistics.
  2. Significant values in bold.