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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2019 Apr;25(4):413–425. doi: 10.1017/S1355617718001170

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics

n (%)
Gender
    Male 50 48.1
    Female 54 51.9
Race
    Caucasian 68 65.4
    African American 16 15.4
    Asian 4 3.8
    Othera 16 15.4
Extent of Surgical Resection
    No surgery 12 11.5
    Catheter only 17 16.4
    Resection 75 72.1
Cerebral Spinal Fluid Diversionb
    No 70 67.3
    Yes 34 32.7
Diabetes Insipidusc
    No 49 47.1
    Yes 55 52.9
n M (SD) Range
Age at Baseline (Years) 104 10.0 (4.6) 1.0 – 20.2d
Number of Surgeries 104 1.5 (1.2) 0 – 8
Time Since Surgery (Months)e 92 6.5 (10.3) 0.2 – 50.3
Body Mass Index 95 22.6 (6.2) 14.3 – 44.8
PKVO2 88 23.9 (7.1) 8.3 – 43.1
BOT2f 86 38.6 (9.0) 20 – 61
Wechsler IQg 93 100.8 (16.0) 56 – 130
a

Other race was composed of participants with race marked as “unknown”.

b

Includes patients who received either ventriculoperitoneal shunting or endoscopic third ventriculostomy.

c

Determined based on whether patient was prescribed desmopressin prior to baseline cognitive evaluation.

d

Cognitive data was not gathered for children under 2 years (n= 2).

e

Does not include patients who did not have surgery.

f

Bruinicks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition; age standardized with a mean of 50 ± 10.

g

8 subtest pro-rated IQ score from the age-appropriate Wechsler measures; age standardized with mean of 100 ± 15.