Cerebral arterial blood flow, attention, and executive and cognitive functions in depressed patients after acute hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage

Table 5 Correlation between cerebral artery blood flow and executive ability

Cerebral arteries	Wisconsin Card Sorting Test				MoCA score (points)
	Total number of responses	Number of error responses	Number of persistent errors	Number of completed answers for the 1st classification
Basilar artery (cm/s)	-0.385a	-0.098	-0.112	-0.324a	0.312a
Left vertebral artery (cm/s)	-0.065	-0.106	-0.082	-0.114	0.018
Right vertebral artery (cm/s)	-0.097	-0.114	-0.109	-0.078	0.095
Left middle cerebral artery (cm/s)	-0.398a	-0.423a	-0.115	-0.447a	0.387a
Right middle cerebral artery (cm/s)	-0.503a	-0.406a	-0.124	-0.435a	0.406a
Left anterior cerebral artery (cm/s)	-0.411a	-0.378a	-0.411a	-0.347a	0.355a
Right anterior cerebral artery (cm/s)	-0.365a	-0.109	-0.362a	-0.303a	0.378a
Left posterior cerebral artery (cm/s)	0.065	-0.087	-0.098	0.012	0.046
Right posterior cerebral artery (cm/s)	-0.098	0.045	-0.077	0.087	0.112

^aP < 0.05, indicates statistically significant.

MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale.