TABLE 4.
Correlations of continuous variables and primary cognitive outcomes among children with SCA and unaffected children
| Est. IQ (n = 36–42) | WMI (n = 36–46) | PSI (n = 42–48) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with SCA | r | P-valuea | r | P-valuea | r | P-valuea |
| Age | −0.426 | 0.005 | −0.370 | 0.011 | −0.304 | 0.036 |
| WFAZ | 0.491 | 0.002 | 0.426 | 0.006 | 0.367 | 0.016 |
| HFAZ | 0.548 | <0.001 | 0.417 | 0.007 | 0.332 | 0.028 |
| Peripheral O2 saturation | −0.043 | 0.792 | −0.088 | 0.572 | 0.037 | 0.810 |
| Hemoglobin | −0.084 | 0.620 | 0.059 | 0.719 | −0.264 | 0.088 |
| Est. IQ (n = 25–27) | WMI (n = 27–29) | PSI (n = 30–33) | ||||
| Unaffected children | r | P-valuea | r | P-valuea | r | P-valuea |
| Age | −0.216 | 0.279 | −0.069 | 0.721 | −0.287 | 0.106 |
| WFAZ | 0.036 | 0.865 | −0.179 | 0.371 | 0.160 | 0.398 |
| HFAZ | 0.239 | 0.250 | 0.126 | 0.531 | 0.450 | 0.012 |
| Peripheral O2 saturation | 0.086 | 0.703 | −0.157 | 0.464 | 0.045 | 0.823 |
Pearson correlation.