Effects of common chronic medical conditions on psychometric tests used to diagnose minimal XXXX .

@entity1 @entity2175 @entity82 @entity712 @entity75 @entity73 @entity3618 @entity299 @entity177 @entity1030 @entity99
UNASSIGNED: Many chronic medical conditions are accompanied by @entity73 but these have only to a very limited extent been psychometrically quantified. An exception is liver @entity82 where @entity99 is an inherent risk and mild forms are diagnosed by psychometric tests. The preferred diagnostic test battery in @entity82 is often the Continuous Reaction Time (CRT) and the @entity75 ( @entity75 ) tests but the effect on these of other medical conditions is not known. We aimed to examine the effects of common chronic (non- @entity82 ) medical conditions on the CRT and @entity75 tests. We studied 15 @entity1 with @entity712 ( @entity712 ), 15 with end stage @entity177 (ESRF), 15 with @entity2175 (DMII), 15 with @entity1030 ( @entity1030 ), and 15 healthy @entity1 . We applied the CRT test, which is a 10-min computerized test measuring sustained attention and reaction time stability and the @entity75 test, which is a paper-pencil test battery consisting of 5 subtests. We found that a high fraction of the @entity1 with @entity3618 (7/15, p   =   0.006) had pathological CRT test results; and @entity1030 @entity1 also frequently had an abnormal @entity75 test result (6/15, p   <   0.0001). Both tests were unaffected by ESRF and DMII. Half of the @entity1 with @entity712 or @entity1030 had psychometrically measurable @entity73 , whereas those with ESRF or DMII had not. This adds to the understanding of the clinical consequences of chronic @entity299 , and implies that the psychometric tests should be interpreted with great caution in @entity82 @entity1 with heart- or lung comorbidity.
