Table 1 Sample overview.

From: Epigenetic and blood markers associated with response to electroconvulsive therapy in patients with depressive disorders

 

Total

Non-responder

Responder

Remitter

pa

n

65

21

44

25

 

Sex = M (%)

28 (43.1)

7 (33.3)

21 (47.7)

10 (40.0)

0.408

Age (mean (SD))

50 (16.8)

42.81 (16.01)

53.43 (16.20)

52.56 (17.44)

0.016

MADRS_before (mean (SD))

35.09 (6.7)

33.95 (5.38)

35.64 (7.25)

34.76 (7.47)

0.348

MADRS_after (mean (SD))

14.02 (8.6)

24.19 (5.44)

9.16 (4.69)

5.92 (2.69)

<0.001

MADRS_percent (mean (SD))

59.33 (24.8)

28.65 (12.58)

73.98 (12.76)

82.43 (8.54)

<0.001

MADRS_delta (mean (SD))

21.08 (10.2)

9.76 (4.62)

26.48 (7.31)

28.84 (7.30)

<0.001

No of ECT treatments (mean (SD))

10.23 (3.7)

11.43 (3.91)

9.35 (2.88)

8.15 (2.58)

0.126

Anti-depressant n (%)

50 (76.9)

15 (71.4)

35 (79.5)

20 (80.0)

0.681

Antipsychotic n (%)

51 (78.5)

17 (81.0)

34 (77.3)

19 (76.0)

0.988

Anticonvulsant n (%)

3 (4.6)

0 (0.0)

3 (6.8)

1 (4.0)

0.553

Lithium n (%)

7 (10.8)

3 (14.3)

4 (9.1)

2 (8.0)

0.838

  1. aThe p-value refers to the comparison between the responders and non-responders.