Clinical Characteristics, Metabolic Parameters, and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts Vary with Untreated Major Depressive Disorder Duration

Table 1

Comparison of clinical characteristics and metabolic parameters between MDD patients with and without a history of SA ().

	MDD with SA ()	MDD without SA ()		value
Age (years)			2.27	0.04
Gender (/%)
Male ()	112 (32.37)	476 (34.69)	0.66^△	0.45
Female ()	234 (67.63)	896 (65.31)
DUI (months)			2.83	0.01
Subgroups
()	50 (14.45)	281 (20.48)	9.77^△	<0.01
()	178 (51.45)	717 (52.26)
()	118 (34.10)	374 (27.26)
Educational level (n/%)
Middle school ()	100 (28.90)	313 (22.81)	8.09^△	0.04
High school ()	141 (40.75)	619 (45.12)
College/university ()	81 (23.41)	368 (26.82)
Postgraduate education ()	24 (6.94)	72 (5.25)
Marital status (/%)
Single ()	95 (27.46)	407 (29.66)	0.65^△	0.43
Married ()	251 (72.54)	965 (70.34)
Psychotic symptom (/%)
Yes ()	88 (25.43)	83 (6.05)	1115.84^△	<0.01
No ()	258 (74.57)	1289 (93.95)
HAMD			14.57	<0.01
HAMA			16.83	<0.01
BMI (kg/m^2)			0.24	0.81
BP (mmHg)
Systolic blood pressure			8.60	<0.01
Diastolic blood pressure			7.10	<0.01
BG (mmol/L)			5.81	<0.01
TC (mmol/L)			9.54	<0.01
TG (mmol/L)			2.89	<0.01
LDL-C (mmol/L)			5.55	<0.01
HDL-C (mmol/L)			6.37	<0.01
Metabolic disorders
With ()	301 (86.99)	1140 (83.09)	3.11^△	0.08
Without ()	45 (13.01)	232 (16.91)

^△The value. Abbreviations: SA: suicide attempt; DUI: duration of untreated illness; HAMD: 17-item Hamilton depression scale; HAMA: 14-item Hamilton anxiety scale; BMI: body mass index; BP: blood pressure; BG: blood glucose; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.