| 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 |