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Comparison of cognitive scores with two categorical variables between cases and controls.
| Cognitive Test | Cirrhosis (n = 29) | Controls (n = 29) | p-value (Fisher’s exact test) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| MMSE* | |||||
| Repetition | |||||
| 0 points | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 0.33 |
| 1 point | 29 | 100 | 28 | 96.5 | |
| Writing a sentence | |||||
| 0 points | 3 | 10 | 2 | 7.0 | 1.00 |
| 1 point | 26 | 90 | 27 | 93.0 | |
| Copying two intersected pentagons | |||||
| 0 points | 5 | 17 | 9 | 31.0 | 0.02 |
| 1 point | 24 | 83 | 20 | 69.0 | |
*All cases and controls scored 1 point in the item “reading a sentence” on MMSE.
