Research Article

Predictive Models for Suicide Attempts in Major Depressive Disorder and the Contribution of EPHX2: A Pilot Integrative Machine Learning Study

Table 1

Summary of the baseline clinical characteristics comparing HV versus MDD and DNS versus DSA.

HV ()MDD ()p valueMDDp value
DNS ()DSA ()

Age (years)26 (22-33)25 (21-29)0.02825 (22-31)23 (20-26)0.025
Gender
 Male52 (47%)110 (30%)0.00176 (33%)34 (26%)0.128
 Female58 (53%)252 (70%)153 (67%)99 (74%)
Marriage status
 Single64 (58%)243 (67%)0.016153 (67%)90 (68%)0.963
 Married46 (42%)107 (30%)69 (30%)38 (29%)
 divorced or widowed0(0%)11(3%)7(3%)4(3%)
Education
 ≤12 years33 (30%)137 (38%)0.13362 (27%)75 (56%)<0.001
 >12 years77 (70%)225 (62%)167 (73%)58 (44%)
Family history of psychiatric disorder
 No110 (100%)245 (68%)<0.001175 (76%)70 (53%)0.857
 Yes0 (0%)62 (17%)45 (20%)17 (13%)
Family history of major depression disorder
 No110 (100%)282 (78%)0.002199 (87%)83 (62%)0.153
 Yes0 (0%)25 (7%)21 (9%)4 (3%)
Family history of suicide
 No110 (100%)302 (83%)0.178217 (95%)85 (64%)0.56
 Yes0 (0%)5 (1%)3 (1%)2 (2%)
History of psychiatric medicine use
 No110 (100%)254 (70%)<0.001187 (82%)67 (50%)0.095
 Yes0 (0%)53 (15%)33 (14%)20 (15%)
BMI21.50 (19.71-24.10)20.06 (18.43-22.55)<0.00120.28 (18.42-22.79)19.77 (18.53-22.43)0.466
Age at onset (years)///23 (19-28)19 (16-22)<0.001
Duration of current episode (weeks)///12 (4-48)24 (5.75-116.50)0.006
Recurrent major depressive episode
 No///121 (53%)42 (32%)0.27
 Yes///98 (43%)45 (34%)
HAMD-total score///29.50 (25.75-35)34 (29-37)<0.001

HV: healthy volunteers; MDD: major depressive disorder; DNS: depressed non-suicide attempters; DSA: depressed suicide attempters; HAMD: Hamilton MDD Scale-24.