Table 1

Characteristics of patients


Group 1 (N = 32)
Group 2 (N = 29)

Characteristic
Patients in monotherapy
Patients in polytherapy
*p

Age, range (yr)
27–69
27–70

Age, mean ± SD (yr)
48.3 ± 8.8
48.6 ± 11.3
0.771
Duration of illness, mean ± SD (yr)
10.8 ± 7.3
10.7 ± 9.1
0.950
BMI, mean ± SD
25.1 ± 5.5
27.9 ± 5.5
0.059



**p




Smoking present, N (%)
16 (50.0)
15 (51.7)
1.000
Applied dose > DDD:



     Dose of AP > DDD, N (%)
7 (21.9)
8 (27.6)
0.767
     Dose of AD > DDD, N (%)
9 (28.1)
11 (37.9)
0.586

*p – 2-tailed t test; **p – 2-tailed Fisher Exact test; BMI – "body mass index";

DDD – "defined daily dose"; AP – antipsychotic; AD – antidepressant

Sumić et al. Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6:13   doi:10.1186/1744-859X-6-13

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