Table 2.
The correlation between hippocampal volumes and age, education level and neurocognitive profile of patients with Alzheimer disease
| Demographic and neurocognitive data of the Alzheimer disease group | Right hippocampal volume |
Left hippocampal volume |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| correlation coefficient | P | correlation coefficient | P | |
| Age (years) | −0.4 | 0.72 | −0.30 | 0.19 |
| Education (years) | +0.10 | 0.67 | +0.13 | 0.58 |
| WMS-I (personal and actual information) | −0.22 | 0.33 | −0.21 | 0.36 |
| WMS-II (orientation) | +0.13 | 0.58 | +0.19 | 0.41 |
| WMS-V (forward digit span) | +0.15 | 0.52 | +0.15 | 0.50 |
| WMS-V (backward digit span) | −0.18 | 0.44 | −0.20 | 0.39 |
| WMS-VI (visual memory) | +0.15 | 0.51 | +0.05 | 0.83 |
| Clock-drawing test | +0.31 | 0.18 | +0.21 | 0.37 |
| Stroop test | −0.23 | 0.31 | −0.24 | 0.30 |
| Boston Naming Test | +0.03 | 0.88 | +0.26 | 0.91 |
| Benton Facial Recognition Test | +0.65 | 0.002* | +0.706 | 0.001* |
| Geriatric Depression Scale | −0.12 | 0.59 | −0.24 | 0.29 |
| MMSE | +0.43 | 0.054 | +0.51 | 0.02* |
WMS, Wechsler Memory Scale; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination.
*
p value less than 0.05 was considered significant.