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Results of pure-tone audiometry screening (pass versus fail) and tympanometry (normal versus abnormal).
| Variable1 | Total |
Girls |
Boys |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| PTA screening | 308 | 100.0 | 226 | 73.0 | 82 | 27.0 |
| Pass | 227 | 73.7 | 171 | 75.6 | 56 | 68.3 |
| Fail | 81 | 26.3 | 55 | 24.3 | 26 | 31.7 |
| Tympanometry | 305 | 100.0 | 226 | 74.1 | 79 | 25.9 |
| Normal bilaterally | 212 | 69.5 | 155 | 68.6 | 57 | 72.2 |
| Normal unilaterally | 41 | 13.4 | 34 | 15.0 | 7 | 8.9 |
| Abnormal bilaterally | 52 | 17.1 | 37 | 16.4 | 15 | 18.9 |
PTA, pure-tone audiometry.
