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. 2024 Sep 12;16(9):e69303. doi: 10.7759/cureus.69303

Table 1. Sociodemographic data and prostate cancer clinical characteristics and its relation to the MoCA test cut-off scores.

ADT: Androgen deprivation therapy, EAU: European Association of Urology, SD: standard deviation, Sig.: significance, MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment

 P-value > 0.05: Non-significant (NS) ; P-value < 0.05: Significant (S); P-value < 0.01: Highly significant (HS).

*: Chi-square test.

  MoCA after 6 months Test value P-value Sig.
Normal Abnormal
No. = 36 No. =49
N (%) N (%)
Level of education Illiterate 8 (22.2) 14 (28.6) 1.889* 0.596 NS
Less than five years 7 (19.4) 11 (22.4)
More than five years 4 (11.1) 2 (4.1)
College graduate 17 (47.2) 22 (44.9)
Past medical history Diabetes mellitus 21 (58.3) 30 (61.2) 0.072* 0.788 NS
Hypertension 22 (61.1) 27 (55.1) 0.307* 0.580 NS
Ischemic heart disease 16 (44.4) 25 (51.0) 0.359* 0.549 NS
Grade group (according to the Gleason score) Grade 1 1 (2.8) 0 (0.0) 2.952* 0.399 NS
Grade 2 9 (25.0) 19 (38.8)
Grade 3 16 (44.4) 18 (36.7)
Grade 4 10 (27.8) 12 (24.5)
EAU risk groups Intermediate risk 12 (46.2)  14 (53.8)  0.228* 0.892 NS
High-risk 19 (40.4) 28 (59.6)  
Metastatic 5 (41.7) 7 (58.3)