Assessment of microstructural abnormalities in gray and white matter of minimal hepatic encephalopathy patients using diffusion kurtosis imaging and their associations with neurocognitive dysfunction.

3.4 Correlations between clinical indicators and white and gray matters variables Correlation analysis explicitly showed significant negative correlations between decreased KFA values in the left CST and left ATR and neurocognitive test scores in the MHE group, including NCT-A scores (negative correlation, significant, r = −0.056, p = 0.001; Figure 3A ), NCT-B scores (negative correlation, significant, r = −0.411, p = 0.024; Figure 3B ), and LTT scores (negative correlation, highly significant, r = −0.610, p = 0.000; Figure 3C ).

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