The brief international cognitive assessment for multiple sclerosis (BICAMS): normative values with gender, age and education corrections in the Italian population

Table 1 Characteristics of the study sample

#	273(baseline sample)	243(re-test sample)		p
		Baseline	Re-test
Females/Males	180/93	158/85		n.s.
Mean age: years ± SD (range) Median	38.9 ± 13.0 (18-65); 38.1	38.2 ± 13.1 (18-65); 35.3		n.s.
Mean education: years ± SD (range) Median	14.9 ± 3.1 (5-21); 16.0	14.9 ± 3.0 (5-21); 16.0		n.s.
SDMT	56.3 + 11.3 (30-91)	56.2 ± 11.6 (30-91)	60.3 + 12.0 (29-107)	< 0.001
CVLT-II	56.3 + 9.0 (31-78)	56.2 ± 9.1 (31-78)	64.2 + 10.1 (34-80)	< 0.001
BVMT-R	27.9 + 6.1 (11-36)	28.1 ± 6.2 (11-36)	31.3 + 5.5 (12-36)	< 0.001

SD; standard deviation; ns: not significant; SDMT; Symbol Digit Modalities Test; CVLT-II; California Verbal Learning Test second edition; BVMT-R; Brief Visuospatial Memory Test Revised.

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