Table 2.
Distribution of means and standard deviation of cognitive abilities in subjects with and without metabolic syndrome.
| Parameters | Control Mean±SD |
Metabolic
Syndrome Mean±SD |
P |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sustained attention (Z-score)b | -3.1±3.5 | -4.9±4.4 | 0.07 |
| Alternating attention (Z- score)b | -4.8±5.8 | -9.0±19.8 | 0.15 |
| Working memory (Z-score)a | 0.5±1.3 | 0.9±1.3 | 0.29 |
| Immediate memory (Z-score)a | 1.1±1.4 | 1.1±1.0 | 0.93 |
| Mental flexibility (Z-score)a | -0.1±0.8 | -0.5±1.1 | 0.27 |
| Long memory - immediate recall (Z-score)a | -0.3±1.4 | -0.5±1.1 | 0.58 |
| Long memory - delayed recall (Z-score)a | -0.1±1.1 | -0.5±1.2 | 0.23 |
| Long memory - recognition (Z-score)a | -0.7±1.3 | -1,1±1.8 | 0.31 |
| Executive function (Z-score)b | -2.1±4.2 | -2.9±4.6 | 0.38 |
| Constructive praxis (weighted)a | 9.8±2.4 | 9.7±2.4 | 0.87 |
| Naming ability (Z-score)b | -0.0±1.2 | -0.4±1.1 | 0.15 |
| Verbal fluency (Z-score)a | -0.1±0.7 | -0.4±0.6 | 0.09 |
a
Student's t-test;
b
Mann-Whitney U test.