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Table 1 Sociodemographic, clinical, serologic, and cognitive variables between bipolar disorder, schizophtrenic patients and healthy controls

From: Immunoglobulin sub-class distribution in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: potential relationship with latent Toxoplasma Gondii infection

Variables

BD (n = 124)

Statistical test, p

SZ (n = 75)

Statistical test value, p

HC (n = 135)

Statistical test, p

BD vs C

SZ vs C

BD vs SZ

Number of participants (BD/SZ/HC): 334

124

 

75

 

135

 

Sociodemographic and clinical variables

Age (in years)(mean ± sd)

44,2 (13,5)

0.0017

36,6 (11,9)

0.0858

39,5 (13,7)

< 0,0001

Gender (%female)

52.8

0.2469

28

< 0,0001

60

0.0006

Caucasian (%yes/no)

86

< 0,0001

73

0.1006

60.8

0.0367

Educational level (%high school)

57.6

0.0111

28.6

0.0059

43.9

< 0,0001

Married (%yes)

34.8

0.0092

79.5

< 0,0001

48.7

< 0,0001

Birth place (%urban)

87.4

0.5936

94

0.1599

89.3

0.0723

Childhood upbringing(urban) (%yes)

84

0.1514

87.9

0.7006

89.4

0.3705

Smoker (%yes)

62.6

< 0,0001

64

< 0,0001

25.4

0.8432

BMI (mean ± sd)

25,1 (4,2)

0.0169

25,6 (5,5)

0.0398

24,2 (4,1)

0.9519

Age at onset (mean ± sd)

26,5 (10,6)

 

23,4 (7,6)

  

0.0084

Number of total episode (mean ± sd)

8,0 (6,8)

 

3,93 (3,3)

   

Duration of the disease (years) (mean ± sd)

17,5 (12,5)

 

12,6 (10,5)

  

0.0006

Auto-immune disease (%)

12%

 

16.20%

 

0

0.1726

Childhood infections (%positive)

MADRS

7,25 (8,8)

 

9,25 (7,5)

   

YMRS

5,5 (7,5)

 

6,3 (6,1)

   

PANSS positive

8,9 (4,6)

 

16,2 (6,6)

   

PANSS negative

9,4 (4,5)

 

20,2 (8,4)

   

PANSS general

22,3 (9,8)

 

33,7 (11,0)

   

PANSS total score

39,8 (16,1)

 

68,3 (22,1)

   

Serologic variables

T. gondii (IgG, %positive)

76.2

0.0006

68

0.1048

58.2

0.1501

Co-infection (IT gondii + CMV, %positive)

47.2

0.291

35.6

0.4826

40.6

0.1146

  1. Significant level was fixed at p<0.05