Establishing the bidirectional relationship between depression and subclinical arteriosclerosis – rationale, design, and characteristics of the BiDirect Study

Table 2 Absolute and relative frequencies of depression subtypes among N = 920 ¹ individuals from the depression cohort

Subtype of depression (N = 920¹)	Frequency (percentage)
Melancholic	554 (60.2%)
Atypical	44 (4.8%)
Mixed	95 (10.3%)
Probably melancholic	27 (2.9%)
Probably atypical	39 (4.2%)
Probably mixed	68 (7.4%)
Melancholic + probably melancholic	581 (63.2%)
Atypical + probably atypical	83 (9.0%)
Mixed + probably mixed	163 (17.7%)
Undifferentiated	93 (10.1%)

¹Number of members of the depression cohort (N = 999) for whom the subtype diagnostic algorithm could be successfully completed.

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