Sleep Apnea and Cognitive Function in Heart Failure

Table 2

Means and standard deviations (means (SD)) of cognitive tests for heart failure/patients with and without sleep apnea.

	𝑁	Attention			Executive function			Memory
		TMT-A^a	DigistSym**	LNS	TMT-B**	FAB^a	Stroop**	SDFR	SDCR	LDFR	LDCR
HF w/o SA	138	.082 (1.06)	9.63 (2.72)	10.15 (2.52)	−.398 (1.53)	−.448 (1.98)	45.46 (10.77)	−.210 (1.04)	−.243 (1.03)	−.315 (.96)	−.257 (.96)
HF w/SA	42	−.631 (1.42)	7.48 (2.23)	10.10 (3.33)	−1.62 (2.48)	−1.68 (2.50)	39.98 (8.06)	−.452 (1.11)	−.441 (1.14)	−.33 (1.32)	−.345 (1.17)

Note. ^amarginal significance; ^∗𝑃<.05; ^∗∗𝑃<.01.
Abbreviations: TMT-A: Trail Making Test A; Digitsym: Digit Symbol coding; LNS: letter number sequencing; TMT-B: Trail Making Test B; FAB: frontal assessment battery; Stroop: stroop interference effect; SDFR: California Verbal Learning short-delay free recall; SDCR: California Verbal Learning short-delay cued recall; LDFR: California Verbal Learning long-delay free recall; LDCR: California Verbal Learning long-delay cued recall.