Table 6.

Correlation of variables of BAEP wave patterns recorded over right ear with age, duration of illness, pack years, spirometric indices, and MMSEQ scores

BAEP (Rt)		Age	Duration of illness	Pack years	PEFR	FEV1	FEV1/FVC	MMSEQ score
I	r	0.173	0.308	0.263	-0.211	-0.242	-0.211	0.154
	p	0.285	0.053	0.101	0.191	0.133	0.192	0.342
II	r	0.58	0.221	0.101	-0.197	-0.276	-0.063	-0.127
	p	0.722	0.170	0.535	0.223	0.084	0.698	0.436
III	r	0.044	0.071	0.050	-0.211	-0.206	-0.044	-0.165
	p	0.787	0.662	0.759	0.190	0.203	0.787	0.310
IV	r	0.024	0.010	-0.143	-0.094	-0.186	-0.121	-0.223
	p	0.894	0.952	0.377	0.563	0.251	0.456	0.167
V	r	0.051	0.183	0.019	-0.094	-0.219	-0.145	-0.009
	p	0.757	0.259	0.907	0.591	0.171	0.406	0.995
I-III	r	0.022	0.086	0.153	-0.201	-0.213	-0.061	-0.179
	p	0.895	0.596	0.346	0.214	0.187	0.709	0.270
I-V	r	0.107	0.027	0.118	-0.021	-0.142	-0.068	-0.099
	p	0.513	0.870	0.469	0.896	0.382	0.676	0.544
III-V	r	0.103	0.113	0.029	0.131	0.004	0.104	0.185
	p	0.529	0.489	0.860	0.419	0.982	-0.521	0.254
Amp I-Ia	r	0.109	0.380	-0.262	-0.154	-0.151	-0.031	0.042
	p	0.502	0.016*	0.103	0.342	0.353	0.850	0.796
Amp V-Va	r	0.194	0.012	0.185	-0.201	-0.039	0.097	-0.319
	p	0.230	0.941	0.252	0.213	0.813	0.554	0.045*

^*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). r = Pearson's coefficient. p = P value.