Cerebral Hemodynamics and Cognitive Function in Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy

Table 2

Patient demographics and blood analysis before treatment among groups 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Variables	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	value
Cases	40	52	21	19	—	—
Age (year)					2.587	0.056
Sex (M/F)	24/16	31/21	12/9	11/8	0.064	0.996
Educational years					1.662	0.178
Etiology					7.148	0.711
B viral hepatitis cirrhosis	—	21	11	8
C viral hepatitis cirrhosis	—	1	1	1
Primary biliary cirrhosis	—	3	3	1
Autoimmune hepatitis cirrhosis	—	5	0	3
Schistosomiasis cirrhosis	—	6	1	1
Cryptogenic cirrhosis	—	16	5	5
Child-Pugh grading					7.229	0.124
Grade A	—	18	4	2
Grade B	—	21	8	7
Grade C	—	13	9	10
Child-Pugh scores	—				4.965	0.009
Ammonia (μmol/L)	—				52.154	<0.001
Cr (μmol/L)	—				0.318	0.728
TBil (μmol/L)	—				0.254	0.776
ALB (g/L)	—				0.691	0.504
PT (sec)	—				0.263	0.769
NCT-A (sec)				—	108.840	<0.001
DST (scores)				—	72.476	<0.001

Table 2 indicates comparison of age, sex, educational years, etiology, Child-Pugh grading, Child-Pugh scores, ammonia, Cr, TBil, ALB, PT, NCT-A, and DST among groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 before treatment. Group 1 is healthy controls group, group 2 is cirrhosis without HE group, group 3 is cirrhosis with MHE group, and group 4 is cirrhosis with OHE group. Continuous data were compared using ANOVA and categorical data were compared by a chi-square test. means significant differences in an index among groups.