Table 3 Comorbid medical and psychiatric illness and post-stroke depression
Stroke patients | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-depressed, N = 65 (63.1%) | Depressed, N = 38 (36.9%) | |||
Diabetes mellitus | Not diabetic | 51 (78.5%) | 28 (73.7%) | 0.580 |
Diabetic | 14 (21.5%) | 10 (26.3%) | ||
Hypertension | Not hypertensive | 46 (70.8%) | 29 (76.8%) | 0.542 |
Hypertensive | 19 (29.2%) | 9 (23.7%) | ||
Cardiac disease | Not cardiac | 55 (84.6%) | 31 (81.6%) | 0.689 |
Cardiac | 10 (9.7%) | 7 (6.8%) | ||
Smoking | Males, smoker | 18 (45%) | 15 (68.2%) | 0.04 |
Males, non-smoker | 22 (55%) | 7(31.8%) | ||
Past history of depression | Negative | 53 (81.5%) | 31 (81.6%) | 0.996 |
Positive | 12 (18.5%) | 7 (18.4%) | ||
Family history of depression | Negative | 59 (90.8%) | 34 (89.5%) | 0.830 |
Positive | 6 (9.2%) | 4 (10.5%) | ||