Systemic inflammatory biomarkers in Schizophrenia are changed by ECT administration and related to the treatment efficacy

Table 2 Higher baseline lymphocytes were associated with larger improvement in ΔP-PANSS following ECT

Variables	β	P value	95% CI for β
Variables	β	P value	Lower	upper
age	0.043	0.608	-0.125	0.211
gender	-0.514	0.734	-3.527	2.499
BMI	0.238	0.209	-0.137	0.613
Education(years)	-0.346	0.117	-0.780	0.089
Duration of illness(months)	-0.005	0.486	-0.020	0.009
Chlorpromazine equivalent doses	-0.007	0.030	-0.012	-0.001
Lymphocytes (10^9/L)	23.032	0.007	6.676	39.388

Abbreviations: CI, Confidence Interval; Δ P-PANSS, Response to ECT in terms of positive symptom was measured as the variation of P-PANSS from pre-ECT to post-ECT. Values are bolded when the p-value <= 0.05

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