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Table 1 Demographic, clinical and medication information of bipolar patients and healthy controls

From: Differential mitochondrial DNA copy number in three mood states of bipolar disorder

 

Bipolar patients

Health control

Statistic

Manic

N = 55

Depression N = 47

Euthymic N = 29

N = 34

 

Age, mean (SD)

26.67 (7.15)

26.94 (8.91)

23.76 (3.94)

24.50 (3.82)

ANOVA, F = 2.05, P = 0.108

Sex

 Male

26

23

9

19

 

 Female

23

24

20

15

df = 3, X2 = 4.13, P = 0.25

Years of education, mean (SD)

12.55 (2.80)

12.38 (3.47)

12.24 (2.52)

13.56 (2.78)

ANOVA, F = 1.41, P = 0.13

 BMI, mean(SD)

21.63 (1.89)

21.45 (1.78)

21.93 (1.69)

21.5 (1.40)

ANOVA, F = 1.63, P = 0.18

Medication information

 

 Antipsychotics

51/55

37/47

23/29

 

df = 2, X2 = 4.69, P = 0.09

Anticonvulsants

24/55

21/47

18/29

 

df = 2, X2 = 2.92, P = 0.23

 CPZ equivalents, mean(SD)

241.58 (93.43)

224.55 (79.90)

227.31 (64.16)

 

ANOVA, F = 0.519, P = 0.67

Benzodiazepines

15/55

17/47

5/29

 

df = 2, X2 = 3.22, P = 0.20

 Lithium

22/55

19/47

12/29

 

df = 2, X2 = 4.72, P = 0.094

Clinical characteristics

Man vs Eut

Dep vs Eut

Man vs Dep

 Duration of illness, months, mean (SD)

70.91(59.24)

67.70 (61.91)

47.45 (34.66)

 

P = 0.140

P = 0.361

P = 1

YMRS, mean(SD)

33.78 (6.08)

8.19 (7.31)

2.78 (2.24)

 

P < 0.001

P < 0.001

P < 0.001

 HDRS, mean(SD)

6.90 (8.24)

27.89 (6.61)

2.63 (3.18)

 

P < 0.001

P < 0.001

P < 0.001

Number of Previous Episodes, mean (SD)

3.55 (1.74)

3.60 (1.70)

2.90 (2.28)

 

P = 0.713

P = 0.654

P = 1

 MtDNAcn, Median (range)

1.59 (1.31,2.07)

1.83 (1.22,2.31)

2.05 (1.5,2.96)

2.38 (1.77,3.24)

   
  1. Abbreviations: BMI body mass index, SD standard deviation, YMRS young mania rating scale. HDRS hamilton depression rating scale, ANOVA one-way analysis of variance, Man manic, Dep depression, Eut euthymic