Neuropsychological and Syntactic Deficits in HIV Seropositive Males

Table 5: Correlations between neuropsychological and linguistic assessments with chronological age, years of education and years post HIV diagnosis for the HIV-positive group.

–	Age	Education	Diagnosis	Sentence repetitionⁱ	Syntactic repetitionⁱ
Age	–	–	–	-0.24 (p=.136)	-0.049 (p=.765)
Education	–	–	–	0.523^j(p=.001)	0.453^j(p=.003)
Diagnosis	–	–	–	-0.378 (p=.016)	-0.455^j(p=.003)
MMSE^a	-.033 (p=.840)	0.572^j(p<0.001)	-0.303 (p=.057)	0.386^j (p=.014)	0.512^j(p=.001)
RAVLT Total^b	-.257 (p=.110)	0.151 (p=.354)	-0.469^j (p=.002)	0.186 (p=.250)	0.184 (p=.255)
RAVLT Delay^c	-.344^j(p=0.30)	0.314^j (p=.048)	-0.541^j(p<.001)	0.207 (p=.200)	0.175 (p=.280)
SDMT^d	-.204 (p=.207)	0.605^j (p<.001)	-0.336^j (p=.034)	0.426^j(p=.006)	0.451^j (p=.003)
LOT^e	-.100 (p=.538)	0.351^j (p=.026)	-0.432^j(p=.005)	0.071 (p=.662)	0.154 (p=.343)
SNST^f	.311 (p=.051)	-0.148 (p=.363)	0.016 (p=.923)	-0.19 (p=.240)	-0.059 (p=.719)
TMTA^g	.309 (p=.052)	-0.398 (p=.011)	0.478^j(p=.002)	-0.328^j(p=.039)	-0.364^j (p=.021)
TMTB^h	.298 (p=.062)	-0.484^j (p=.002)	0.426^j(p=.006)	-0.384^j(p=.014)	-0.421^j (p=.007)
Semantic fluency	-0.171 (p=.291)	0.326^j(p=.040)	-0.039 (p=.810)	0.352^j(p=.026)	0.231 (p=.152)
Phonemic fluency	-0.004 (p=.980)	0.545^j (p<.001)	-0.442^j(p=.004)	0.351^j(p=.027)	0.434^j(p=.005)
CD4	-0.053 (p=.747)	0.328^j(p=.042)	-0.045 (p=.784)	0.164 (p=.320)	0.147 (p=.373)
CD4 nadir	-0.324^j (p=.047)	0.122 (p=.465)	-0.172 (p=.303)	-0.113 (p=.501)	-0.137 (p=.412)

^aMini-Mental State Examination test (maximum score=30); ^bRey Auditory-Verbal Learning test (maximum score= 75); ^cRAVLT-Delayed recall (maximum score=15 each subtest); ^dSymbol Digit Modalities Test (maximum score=115); ^eLine Orientation Test (maximum score=10); ^fStroop Neuropsychological Screening Test (maximum score=112); ^gTrail Making Test A; ^hTrail Making Test B; ⁱSentence and syntactic structure repetition (maximum score=15 each); ^jsignificant difference p < 0.05