Table 3 Verbal Fluency Qualitative Analysis at baseline of aMCI subjects; data are expressed as mean (SD).

From: Verbal fluency patterns associated with the amnestic conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia

 

aMCI-no converter (n = 53)

aMCI-converter (n = 14)

p-value

PVF, number cluster

7.1 (2.8)

4.3 (2.0)

0.001*

PVF, cluster size

6.9 (1.6)

6.3 (3.6)

0.554

PVF, number switch

21.2 (7.1)

16.4 (4.9)

0.022*

SVF, number cluster

8.2 (2.5)

6.4 (2.0)

0.009*

SVF, cluster size

7.1 (1.6)

6.9 (1.7)

0.601

SVF, number switch

16.2 (5.3)

13.4 (4.0)

0.065

  1. PVF, phonemic verbal fluency; SVF, semantic verbal fluency. *p < 0.05.
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