Table 1 Demographic, clinical, genotype and radiotracer information.

From: Association between brain serotonin 4 receptor binding and reactivity to emotional faces in depressed and healthy individuals

 

Patients with MDD N = 88

Healthy controls n = 50

Significance

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

pa

Age (years)

26.8

7.9

25.8

5.0

0.67

BMI (kg/m2)

24.6

5.6

23.5

3.5

0.63

MDI

34.2

7.4

17.0

15.2

<0.001

HAM-D17

22.8

3.4

 

[11C]SB207145 injected mass (µg/kg)

0.013

0.014

0.015

0.016

0.32

 

N

%

N

%

pb

Females

62

70.5

46

92

0.004

5-HTTLPR genotype (LALA)

24

27.3

15

30

0.84

  1. Demographic, clinical and radiotracer information for patients with major depressive disorder and healthy controls.
  2. MDD Major Depressive Disorder, BMI Body Mass Index, HAMD17 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, MDI Major Depressive Inventory, pa p-value computed using Mann–Whitney U-test, pb p-value computed using Fisher’s exact test.