Research Article
Patients with Hepatitis C Infection and Normal Liver Function: A Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Assessment of Cognitive Functions
Table 4
Scores of patients with HCV infection and the control group on the items of the Mini-Mental State Examination.
| | Control () | HCV () | | Median | Standard deviation | Median | Standard deviation | value |
| | Orientation to time | 5.00 | 0.27 | 5.00 | — | 0.16 | | Orientation to place | 5.00 | 0.19 | 5.00 | 0.46 | 0.30 | | Immediate memory | 3.00 | — | 3.00 | — | — | | Attention and calculation | 4.00 | 1.31 | 3.00 | 1.56 | 0.01 | | Word evocation | 3.00 | 0.55 | 2.00 | 0.80 | 0.02 | | Nomination | 2.00 | 0.19 | 2.00 | — | 0.34 | | Repetition | 1.00 | 0.19 | 1.00 | 0.48 | 0.10 | | Complex commands | 3.00 | 0.42 | 3.00 | 0.27 | 0.98 | | Reading | 1.00 | — | 1.00 | — | — | | Writing | 1.00 | 0.19 | 1.00 | 0.27 | 0.18 | | Drawing copy | 1.00 | 0.48 | 1.00 | NA | 0.13 | | MMSE-score | 28.00 | 2.03 | 26.00 | 2.04 | 0.03 |
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Mann–Whitney U test, Fisher’s exact test. Abbreviations: HCV: hepatitis C virus; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination. |
