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High Prevalence of Sleep Disturbance in Cirrhosis

table  3.   Psychometric Tests in Cirrhosis


Satisfactory Sleep (n = 23) Unsatisfactory Sleep (n = 21)

Trail making A (s) 41 ± 4 43 ± 3
Trail making B (s) 92 ± 8 100 ± 8
Grooved pegboard dominant hand (s) 85 ± 4 89 ± 7
Grooved pegboard non-dominant hand (s) 91 ± 5 95 ± 8
Gordon vigilance (n) 29 ± 0.6 28 ± 0.6
Gordon distractibility (n) 21 ± 1.9 20 ± 0.2
Vigilance reaction time (ms) 448 ± 18 481 ± 22
Distractibility reaction time (ms) 486 ± 29 471 ± 16

NOTE. There were no significant differences between both groups.

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