Table 3.
Executive function test results
| Patients without the C9orf72 repeat expansion | Patients with the C9orf72 repeat expansion | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category fluency* | 16·5 (7·9; 126) | 15·1 (7·9; 14) | 0·100 | |
| Combined verbal fluency index† | 13·8 (7·7–27·0; 149) | 17·8 (11·3–48·7; 19) | 0·056 | |
| Brixton scaled score* | 5·1 (2·3; 154) | 4·6 (2·8; 19) | 0·043 | |
| Stroop score | ||||
| CW score* | 69·3 (33·3; 119) | 60·3 (32·5; 14) | 0·067 | |
| SEF score† | 37·1 (25·9; 119) | 44·5 (25·6; 14) | 0·054 | |
| Backward digit span* | 10·6 (3·5; 117) | 9·7 (3·7; 12) | 0·221 | |
Data are mean (SD; number of patients) or median (IQR; number of patients). CW=Colour-Word score for the Stroop test. SEF=Stroop Executive Factor.
Low score is worse.
High score is worse.