Table 3.
Memory Performance for Patients with Moderate OSA and Healthy Comparison Subjects
| OSA patients (N=15) |
Comparison subjects (N=20) |
Test session |
Group |
Session * Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evening | Morning | Evening | Morning | F | p | F | p | F | p | |
| Procedural memory | ||||||||||
| MT trials star | 6.1 ± 4.4 | 1.0 | 4.9 ± 4.7 | 1.0 | – | 1.4 | 0.254 | – | ||
| MT capacity | 131.5 ± 41.3 | 90.9 ± 28.1 | 151.9 ± 44.9 | 89.8 ± 25.2 | 6.9 | 0.013 | 0.6 | 0.432 | 6.0 | 0.020 |
| MT draw time | 88.3 ± 38.6 | 67.0 ± 28.0 | 113.2 ± 50.9 | 73.9 ± 29.0 | 6.2 | 0.018 | 1.8 | 0.194 | 5.6 | 0.024 |
| MT error count | 22.8 ± 10.9 | 12.7 ± 7.3 | 20.4 ± 10.7 | 8.4 ± 7.7 | 0.8 | 0.382 | 2.2 | 0.147 | 0.5 | 0.474 |
| MT error time | 16.5 ± 8.4 | 11.2 ± 9.1 | 11.6 ± 9.3 | 7.4 ± 8.3 | 0.4 | 0.529 | 3.2 | 0.084 | 0.4 | 0.515 |
| Declarative memory | ||||||||||
| Verbal memory | 12.6 ± 3.8 | 10.5 ± 4.4 | 14.3 ± 4.5 | 12.7 ± 4.5 | 0.3 | 0.619 | 1.9 | 0.175 | 1.8 | 0.195 |
| Visual memory | 21.8 ± 3.8 | 18.1 ± 4.9 | 23.1 ± 4.3 | 20.6 ± 4.9 | 4.2 | 0.050 | 1.8 | 0.186 | 0.7 | 0.419 |
Data are presented as mean ± SD. Times are given in seconds. MT, mirror tracing. The values for verbal and visual memory represent the number of correctly retrieved items. Rm-MANCOVA with repeated measures factor test session, factor group and age as covariate.