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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Depression is associated with longer emergency department length of stay in acute coronary syndrome patients

 

Overall sample characteristics (n= 120)

Current depression (n= 15)

Past depression (n= 28)

Never depressed (n= 77)

Age, n (SD)

62.3 (11.1)

59.9 (14.8)

60.7 (10.0)

63.1 (10.7)

Male, n (%)*

80 (67)

6 (40)

19 (68)

53 (69)

Black/African American, n (%)**

30 (25)

9 (60)

9 (32)

13 (17)

Hispanic, n (%)

67 (56)

8 (53)

12 (43)

48 (62)

Neighborhood income (SD)

$36,588 ($21,494)

$31,530 ($12,341)

$36,518 ($17,916)

$37,080 ($23,369)

NSTEMI, n (%)

47 (39)

7 (47)

10 (36)

29 (38)

GRACE score (SD)

93.5 (28.3)

94.5 (32.6)

85.9 (27.7)

96.9 (28.7)

Beck Depression Inventory score (SD)**

9.2 (6.9)

15.3 (5.6)

10.6 (7.3)

7.8 (6.5)

ED presentation 8am-4pm, n (%)

62 (52)

6 (38)

15 (54)

41 (53)

ED presentation 4pm-midnight, n (%)*

29 (24)

7 (47)

5 (17)

15 (19)

ED presentation midnight-8am, n (%)

29 (24)

2 (13)

8 (29)

21 (27)

ED LOS (SD)*

11.6 (8.0)

16.3 (11.3)

12.4 (7.5)

10.9 (7.5)

  1. Note: Values represent mean (standard deviation) for each continuous patient characteristic. For categorical variables, n (%) are given.
  2. *p ≤ .05, ** p ≤ .01 for comparison (one-way ANOVA for continuous variables, χ2 for categorical variables).