Intrinsic Brain Abnormalities in Patients with Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Cognitive Impairment: A Preliminary Resting-State fMRI Study

Table 1

Demographic and clinical information of the study participants.

	HC subjects ()	Patients with HCV infection ()	value
Age (year)			0.822
Gender (male/female)	13/4	11/6	0.71 ( test)
Education level (year)			0.585
PHES tests
Final PHES (score)			0.028
Number connection test A (seconds)			0.024
Number connection test B (seconds)			0.020
Serial dotting test (seconds)			0.106
Digit symbol test (raw score)			0.013
Line tracing test (raw score)			0.001

Abbreviations: HC: healthy control; HCV: hepatitis C virus; PHES: psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score.