Cirrhotic patients with No HE N = 17

Cirrhotic patients with MHE N = 13

Healthy controls

N = 30

P value

No HE versus healthy controls

MHE versus healthy controls

No HE versus MHE

Age (years)

50.29 ± 7.36

49.23 ± 4.01

50.80 ± 10

0.844

0.467

0.617

Sex: male/female

7/10

8/5

16/14

0.423

0.619

0.269

Serial dotting test (sec)

142.0 ± 64.99

164.46 ± 56.42

68.40 ± 15.86

0.000***

0.000***

0.330

Line tracing test (sec)

196.24 ± 105.16

193 ± 69.77

95.17 ± 31.56

0.001**

0.000***

0.920

Number of errors

5.88 ± 3.21

11.23 ± 11.70

5.90 ± 7.35

0.991

0.148

0.133

P300 latency (m.sec)

300.76 ± 9.14

338.23 ± 16.81

294.3 ± 7.41

0.483

0.000***

0.000***

Serum zinc (PPM)

0.36 ± 0.20

0.25 ± 0.19

0.68 ± 0.37

0.000***

0.000***

0.136