Depressive disorder and elevated risk of bell’s palsy: a nationwide propensity score-weighting study

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Demographic characteristics and comorbidities of patients with and without depressive disorder (N = 1,477,848)

Variables	Full-population cohort						Propensity score-weighted cohort
	Patients with depressive disorder (n = 44,198)		Patients without depressive disorder (n = 1,433,650)		P value		Patients with depressive disorder	Patients without depressive disorder	P value
	n	%	n	%	%		%	%	P value
Demographics
Age (mean ± SD)	48.3 ± 17.3		45.1 ± 16.7		< 0.0001		45.42 ± 16.7	45.16 ± 16.7	0.367
Sex					< 0.0001				0.402
Women	27,340	61.86	704,383	49.13			49.83	49.51
Men	16,858	38.14	729,267	50.87			50.17	50.49
Geographic region					< 0.0001				0.843
Taipei	16,004	36.21	524,016	36.55			36.64	36.54
Northern	5,864	13.27	212,964	14.85			14.91	14.81
Central	6,889	15.59	256,457	17.89			17.57	17.82
Southern	5,848	13.23	198,299	13.83			13.86	13.81
Kaoping	8,554	19.35	210,268	14.67			14.76	14.81
Eastern	1,039	2.35	31,646	2.21			2.27	2.21
Comorbidities
Hypertension	12,041	27.20	211,387	14.70	< 0.0001		16.06	15.13	< 0.0001
Hyperlipidemia	6,410	14.50	105,804	7.40	< 0.0001	8.09		7.60	0.010
Diabetes mellitus	95,101	6.63	5,289	11.97	< 0.0001		7.46	6.80	0.046
Stroke	3,908	8.84	39,259	2.74	< 0.0001		3.26	2.93	0.024
Herpes simplex virus	790	1.79	13,725	0.96	< 0.0001		0.98	0.98	0.763
Meningitis	26	0.06	191	0.01	< 0.0001		0.02	0.01	0.838
Comorbidities
Head injury	1,412	3.19	14,027	0.98	< 0.0001	1.16		1.05	0.107
Obesity	248	0.56	3,415	0.24	< 0.0001		0.26	0.25	0.577
Tobacco use disorder	450	1.02	4,226	0.29	< 0.0001		0.32	0.32	0.946
Alcoholism	978	2.21	1,720	0.12	< 0.0001		0.20	0.19	0.872

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