Table 1 Demographic and clinical data for patients with MDD and HCs.

From: Gut proinflammatory bacteria is associated with abnormal functional connectivity of hippocampus in unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder

 

MDD

HCs

p value

 

Mean (S.D.)

Mean (S.D.)

 

Number of subjects

44

42

n/a

Age (years)

32.39 (13.26)

33.21 (13.05)

0.773*

Sex (male/female)

11/30

16 /28

0.191a

Education (years)

13.04 (2.57)

14.53 (4.74)

0.115*

Age at onset (years)

29.31 (13.98)

n/a

n/a

Number of episodes

1.85 (1.16)

n/a

n/a

24-item HDRS (score)

29.47 (6.85)

0–7

n/a

Duration of illness (months)

30.25 (34.34)

n/a

n/a

FD

0.050 (0.029)

0.049 (0.033)

0.893*

  1. MDD major depressive disorder, HCs healthy controls, HDRS Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, FD framewise displacement for in-scanner head motion.
  2. *The p values were obtained by Mann–Whitney U tests.
  3. aThe p value for sex distribution was obtained by chi-square test.
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