Igg-Dependent Hydrolysis of Myelin Basic Protein of Patients with Different Courses of Schizophrenia

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of schizophrenia patients and healthy control subjects.

	Healthy control subjects	Patients with acute schizophrenia	Patients with schizophrenia in remission	value Mann–Whitney test
Number	24	48	31	NS
Age median (IQR)	39.00 [29.00; 46.00]	38.00 [30.00; 46.00]	35.00 [31.00; 44.00]	NS
Male/female	9/15	12/28	16/15	NS
Duration of disease, years median (IQR)		12.50 [6.00; 17.00]	15.00 [10.00; 18.00]	NS
PANSS total score		89.00 [80.00; 105.00]	54.50 [52.00; 59.00]	0.0001

NS: nonsignificant between the group of healthy control subjects and different groups of patients between the groups of patients with acute schizophrenia and patients in remission.