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Table 2 Performance ( z scores) on cognitive tasks of the NINDS-CSN cognitive battery

From: Platelet-activating factors are associated with cognitive deficits in depressed coronary artery disease patients: a hypothesis-generating study

Cognitive task

All CAD patients (N = 24) z score (standard deviation)

Major depressed subgroup (N = 15) zscore (standard deviation)

Executive function

-0.35 (0.70)

-0.36 (0.76)

Animal Naming Task

-0.28 (0.96)

-0.31 (0.96)

FAS/COWAT

-0.25 (0.92)

-0.20 (1.06)

Trail Making Test Part B

-0.53 (0.86)

-0.58 (0.93)

Attention and processing speed

-0.55 (0.78)

-0.64 (0.82)

Trail Making Test Part A

-0.67 (1.00)

-0.81 (1.01)

Digit-Symbol Substitution Test

-0.43 (0.76)

-0.49 (0.80)

Memory

-0.22 (0.95)

-0.37 (1.00)

CVLT, immediate recall (Trials 1 to 5) (verbal)

-0.51 (1.06)

-0.76 (1.01)

CVLT, delayed recall (verbal)

-0.17 (0.93)

-0.30 (0.96)

BVMT, immediate recall (Trials 1 to 3) (visuospatial)

-0.25 (1.39)

-0.35 (1.45)

BVMT, delayed recall (visuospatial)

-0.02 (1.17)

-0.01 (1.19)

Global cognition z score (composite of all sub-domains)

-0.38 (0.62)

-0.46 (0.59)

  1. BVMT, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test; CVLT, California Verbal Learning Test II; FAS/COWAT, FAS Controlled Word Association Test; NINDS-CSN, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-Canadian Stroke Network.