Gustatory Dysfunction among a Sample of Depressed Egyptian Adults under Antidepressants Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 2

Descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA for sweet detection and recognition thresholds scores and concentrations among the tested groups.

		Mean	SD	95% CI		Min.	Max.	value
				Lower	Upper
Sweet detection threshold score	TCA^∗	1.4	0.7	0.9	1.9	1.0	3.0	0.043
	SSRIs	1.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
	Psychotherapy	1.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Sweet detection threshold conc	TCA^∗	0.9	0.2	0.8	1.1	0.8	1.4	0.040
	SSRIs	0.8	0.0	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
	Psychotherapy	0.8	0.0	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
Sweet recognition threshold score	TCA^∗	2.1	1.0	1.4	2.8	1.0	4.0	0.007
	SSRIs	1.2	0.4	0.9	1.5	1.0	2.0
	Psychotherapy	1.2	0.4	0.9	1.5	1.0	2.0
Sweet recognition threshold conc	TCA^∗	1.2	0.3	1.0	1.4	0.8	1.6	0.008
	SSRIs	0.9	0.2	0.8	1.0	0.8	1.2
	Psychotherapy	0.9	0.2	0.8	1.0	0.8	1.2
	SSRIs	3.7	2.1	2.2	5.2	1.0	6.0
	Psychotherapy	5.1	1.7	3.9	6.3	2.0	6.0