Normal Hearing Ability but Impaired Auditory Selective Attention Associated with Prediction of Response to Donepezil in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

Table 2

Changes after donepezil treatment.

	MMSE (30)		Hearing level (dB)		ASA task				Vigilance test (33)		Auditory ADL (8–36)
					60 dB (15)		70 dB (15)
	Pre	Post	Pre	Post	Pre	Post	Pre	Post	Pre	Post	Pre	Post
Responders	16.5	22.5^*	18.8	19.4	6.5	11.5^*	5.5	6.5^*	32.5	33.5^*	10.5	8.5^*
Nonresponders	15.8	16.4	17.5	18.5	6.4	6.8	5.6	5.7	31.5	30.8	9.8	10.4

MMSE: minimental state examination, ASA: auditory selective attention, ADL: activities of daily living. Parentheses indicate the maximum scores and shown are the means.
Asterisks indicated significant increase after donepezil treatment (Mann-Whitney test; ).