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Table 3 The comparison of neuropsychological tests of the patients as regards to laterality of infarction

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

Clinical and laboratory data

Laterality of infarction

p value

Dominant hemisphere (n = 19)

Non-dominant hemisphere (n = 25)

 

MMSE

25.37 ± 3.44

26.43 ± 3.27

0.3

MoCA

20.78 ± 4.77

22.95 ± 2.66

0.03

TMT

263.27 ± 72.50

229.14 ± 76.45

0.3

COWAT–semantic

7.90 ± 3.51

10.79 ± 4.07

0.4

COWAT–phonemic

10.23 ± 5.84

17.21 ± 9.5

0.09

IL-8

45.7 ± 8.5

50.1 ± 8.5

0.08

  1. MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination; MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment; TMT-B Trail Making Test-B; COWAT Controlled Oral Word Association Test; IL Interleukin