Are Cardiovascular Risk Factors Associated with Verbal Learning and Memory Impairment in Patients with Schizophrenia? A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Individual components of MetS associated with memory test scores: multivariate analyses (β ^#).

	List A, trial 1	Total recall Trials 1–5, List A	Short delay free recall	Short delay cued recall	Long delay free recall	Long delay cued recall	Rate of forgetting	Proactive; interference	Retroactive interference
Abdominal obesity	−.081	−.237**	−.274*	−.276*	−.308**	−.273*	−.149	−.043	.032
Low HDL cholesterol	−.094	−.153	−.193	−132	−.211*	−.152	−.100	.069	.011
High triglycerides	−.159	−.237*	−.202*	−.195	−.240*	−.196	−.146	.056	.165
Hypertension	−.136	−.046	−.047	−.016	−.124	−.058	−.167	.110	−.104
Hyperglycaemia	−.083	.004	−.028	−.041	−.111	−.019	−.163	−.044	−.101

^#: Adjusted for age, sex, education, smoking and alcohol use. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01.