Neurohumoral Profiles and Childhood Adversity of Patients with Multisomatoform Disorder and Pain as the Leading Bodily Symptom

Table 1

Group characteristics of study participants. Values are whole numbers or represented as (standard deviation).

	Male				Female
	Controls		Patients		Controls		Patients
	Mean	SD ±	Mean	SD ±	Mean	SD ±	Mean	SD ±
Age (years)	46.06	14.44	51.67	9.38	53.32	8.72	55.14	10.11
Body mass index	25.02	3.38	26.63	3.75	24.20	3.96	27.02	5.26
SF-36 physical sum scale	55.11	3.57	30.09	7.75	53.86	5.95	28.62	7.83
SF-36 psychological sum scale	50.40	8.05	33.97	15.63	53.32	6.57	39.01	12.05
VAS 0 bis 10	1.17	2.27	7.12	1.50	1.82	2.62	7.00	1.55