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Table 1 The demographic and clinical information for the participants between GP misdiagnosed as primary psychiatric disease and the patients diagnosed definitely once seeing a doctor

From: Clinical and neuropsychological characteristics of general paresis misdiagnosed as primary psychiatric disease

Variable

GP misdiagnosed (n = 29)

GP not misdiagnosed (n = 26)

p value

Number of male

26 (89.7 %)

23 (88.5 %)

0.887

Age (years)

48.2 ± 8.4

55.0 ± 8.2

<0.001

 Education (years)

8.9 ± 2.3

8.7 ± 1.8

0.71

The duration (month)

16 (from 1 to 96)

12 (from 1 to 72)

0.054

Argyll-Robertson pupil

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

 Positive sucking reflex

12 (41.4 %)

12 (46.2 %)

0.721

CSF-protein (>500 mg)

18 (62.1 %)

10 (38.5 %)

0.08

CSF-WBC (>10*10^6)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

CSF-RPR (+)

14 (48.3 %)

8 (30.8 %)

0.186

CSF-TPHA (+)

29 (100 %)

26 (100 %)

 
  1. Abbreviations: GP misdiagnosed, general paresis misdiagnosed as primary psychiatric disease, GP not misdiagnosed, general paresis was diagnosed once seeing a doctor, The duration, the symptoms onset to correct diagnosis, CSF cerebral spinal fluid, WBC white blood cells, RPR rapid plasma regain, TPHA Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay