Table 6.
Association of hearing loss (HL95) with peripheral neuropathy, kidney function, and cerebrovascular lesions
| Males
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Females
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No hearing loss
|
Hearing loss
|
P | No hearing loss
|
Hearing loss
|
P | |||||||||
| n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | |||
| Age (years) | 38 | 21.1 | 10.4 | 47 | 38.2 | 9.1 | <0.001 | 15 | 34.7 | 11.5 | 9 | 46.8 | 11.4 | 0.19 |
| Creatinine (mg/dl) | 38 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 47 | 1.7 | 1.2 | <0.001 | 15 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 9 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.056 |
| BUN (mg/dl) | 38 | 10.3 | 3.3 | 47 | 20.1 | 14.1 | <0.001 | 15 | 14.8 | 4.3 | 9 | 17.1 | 12.6 | 0.52 |
| Cold perception feet (JND) | 19 | 13.5 | 5.5 | 39 | 19.4 | 5.5 | <0.001 | 12 | 11.6 | 3.7 | 5 | 11.0 | 3.9 | 0.78 |
| White matter lesion load | 17 | Median 0 | IQR 0–0 | 32 | Median 1.4 | IQR 0–30.1 | 0.011* | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
An asterisk (*) denotes a Mann–Whitney test, which was applied because of non-parametric distribution of the data. The other comparisons are based on ANOVA. White matter lesion load was not performed in the females. P-values were not adjusted for multiple comparison.