Figure 2From: Low fat intake is associated with pathological manifestations and poor recovery in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma Relationship between minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) and various clinicopathological factors. (A) Five patients who were diagnosed with MHE using a computer-aided neuropsychiatric test were significantly older in age (77.2 ± 1.9) than the MHE-negative cases (67.0 ± 8.0) (p = 0.0081). (B) npRQ on day 1 in MHE-positive and MHE-negative cases were 0.78 ± 0.027 and 0.84 ± 0.062, respectively, and tended to be lower in MHE-positive cases (p = 0.082). (C) Relative energy intakes at home expressed as a percentage to basal energy expenditure multiplied by stress and activity indices of 1.1 and 1.3, respectively, were 109.0 ± 30.0% and 99.7 ± 17.7% in MHE-negative and -positive cases, and were not significantly different each other (p = 0.51). (D) Similarly, body compositions of skeletal muscle mass relative to body weight were 40.1 ± 4.5% and 37.1 ± 4.2% in MHE-negative and -positive cases, and were not significantly different each other (p = 0.18).Back to article page