| ARHL | Age-related hearing loss |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| PTA | Pure-tone average |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| SHAP | SHapley Additive exPlanations |
| HbA1c | Glycated hemoglobin |
| MCV | Mean corpuscular volume |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| HDL-C | High-density lipoprotein cholesterol |
| LDL-C | Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol |
| HL | Hearing loss |
| NIHL | Noise-induced hearing loss |
| RF | Random forest |
| SVM | Support vector machine |
| XGBoost | Extreme gradient boosting |
| AST | Aspartate aminotransferase |