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Table 4 Correlation (Spearman's ρ ) between depressive symptoms and neuropsychological functions in patients with depression on the GDS

From: Cognitive performance in older elderly men with late-life depression and cardiovascular comorbidities: symptomatological correlation

 

Geriatric depression scale

 

Negative mood

Energy level a

Inferiority

Disinterest

Mini-mental atate examination

    

  Orientation

-0.16 (0.16)

0.13 (0.25)

0.00 (0.99)

0.07 (0.52)

  Registration

-0.05 (0.67)

-0.11 (0.33)

0.08 (0.47)

0.08 (0.49)

  Attention

-0.03 (0.79)

0.04 (0.69)

0.16 (0.14)

-0.08 (0.47)

  Recall memory

-0.04 (0.73)

-0.11 (0.32)

0.01 (0.92)

0.13 (0.25)

  Language

-0.05 (0.63)

0.08 (0.46)

-0.05 (0.67)

-0.02 (0.89)

Spatial concept

0.01 (0.90)

-0.10 (0.39)

-0.11 (0.32)

-0.24 (0.03)

Trail Making Test A

-0.19 (0.90)

0.10 (0.36)

-0.21 (0.07)

-0.01 (0.78)

Trail Making Test B

0.11 (0.41)

-0.09 (0.50)

- 0.28 (0.035)

-0.04 (0.79)

Trail Making Test B-A

0.28 (0.04)

-0.20 (0.15)

-0.17 (0.22)

-0.18 (0.18)

Trail Making Test B/A

0.29 (0.03)

-0.09 (0.53)

0.06 (0.66)

-0.31 (0.02)

  1. Data are presented as ρ (p value). aThe higher score represents the lower energy level.