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Table 4 Correlating cognitive function in SLE patients to absolute volumes of aHC, pHC, HC, and BA35

From: Altered medial temporal lobe subregion volumes in systemic lupus erythematosus patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms

Cognitive function

Region of interest

SLE patients

Cognitive function

Region of interest

SLE patients

Pearson’s partial correlation coefficient

p-value

Pearson’s partial correlation coefficient

p-value

Visual memory (VisuM)

aHC

−0.002

0.98

Complex attention (CompA)

aHC

0.16

0.19

pHC

0.007

0.95

pHC

0.06

0.63

HC

0.003

0.98

HC

0.14

0.26

BA35

−0.009

0.94

BA35

0.20

0.10

Processing speed (ProcS)

aHC

0.19

0.11

Executive function (ExecF)

aHC

0.08

0.50

pHC

0.09

0.46

pHC

0.004

0.97

HC

0.18

0.15

HC

0.05

0.65

BA35

0.21

0.09

BA35

0.14

0.24

Simple attention (SimpA1)

aHC

0.13

0.44

MADRS-S2

aHC

0.07

0.47

pHC

0.28

0.10

pHC

−0.04

0.67

HC

0.28

0.10

HC

0.02

0.79

BA35

0.08

0.63

BA35

0.04

0.69

  1. Abbreviations MADRS-S: Montgomery-Ã…sberg depression rating scale, self-reported; aHC/pHC: anterior/posterior hippocampus; BA35: Brodmann area 35
  2. 1SimpA has missing values in 31 SLE patients and 2 HI
  3. 2Partial correlations between MADRS-S and volume were not adjusted for education level