Research Article
C-Reactive Protein and Cognition Are Unrelated to Leukoaraiosis
Table 2
Chi-square for categorical variables.
| | | Cognitive impairment () (%) | Controls () (%) | value |
| | Sex | | | | | Male | 19 (55.8%) | 62 (61.4%) | 0.057 | | Female | 15 (44.2%) | 39 (38.6%) | | | GDS | | | | | ≤5 | 21 (61.7%) | 68 (67.3%) | 0.055 | | ≥6 | 13 (38.3%) | 33 (32.7%) | | | CRP | | | | | <5.0 mg/L | 18 (52.9%) | 77 (76.2%)
| 0.001 | | ≥5.0 mg/L | 16 (47.1%) | 24 (23.8%) | | | Leukoaraiosis | | | | | No | 9 (26.4%) | 40 (39.6%) | 0.002 | | Yes | 25 (73.6%) | 61 (60.4%) | |
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GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale; CRP: C-reactive protein.
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