The Mind and Liver Test: A New Approach to the Diagnosis of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy in Resource-Poor Settings

Table 4

Demographics within the cirrhosis group.

	Cirrhotics without MHE; (CFF−); ( = 24)	Cirrhotics with MHE; (CFF+); ( = 16)
Age	43.5 ±	50 ±
Years of education	6.4 ±	3.06 ±
Gender (M/F)	16/8	9/7
Cirrhosis etiology (Alcohol/HCV/HCV+Alcohol/NASH/Others)	09/05/00/04/06	03/05/03/02/03
MELD score (median)	11	14
Child score (A/B)	14/10	8/8
Total bilirubin (median)	1.5	1.6
INR (median)
Serum creatinine (median, in mg/dL)
MALT scores	14.8 ±	24.8 ±

< 0.05 between two groups.
^† < 0.01 between two groups.