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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 2 Comparison of cognitive performance between the patients and the controls

From: Post-stroke executive dysfunction and verbal fluency negatively correlated to IL8

Neuropsychological test

Patients (n = 44)

Control (n = 44)

p value

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

MMSE

25.7 ± 3.4

29.1 ± 1

< 0.001*

MoCA

21.8 ± 4

27.5 ± 1.6

< 0.001*

TMT-B

246.2 ± 75.6

150.8 ± 79

< 0.001*

COWAT-semantic

8.8 ± 3.9

14.4 ± 3.4

< 0.001*

COWAT-phonemic

12.4 ± 7.8

28.2 ± 8.1

< 0.001*

  1. MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination; MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment; TMT-B Trail Making Test-B; COWAT Controlled Oral Word Association Test
  2. *P < 0.001
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