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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Audiol. 2010 Aug;49(8):580–585. doi: 10.3109/14992021003753508

Table 2.

Baseline Characteristics of Participants at Risk for Incident Tinnitus, by Follow-up Status.

Characteristic Percentage with Characteristic p-value

Participated (n = 2922)1 Did Not Participate (n = 114)2 Deceased (n = 349)3 Unadjusted Age- adjusted

History of ever smoking 52.1 62.6 66.0 < .0001 < .0001
Hypertension present 49.8 43.3 63.6 < .0001 .0394
Any loud hobbies (past year) 49.7 52.6 40.4 .0031 .33
Arthritis present 45.8 30.8 46.9 .0154 .0212
Obese 41.8 50.0 38.2 .14 .39
Hearing loss present 41.3 36.3 63.9 < .0001 .0006
Male 40.7 43.9 53.6 < .0001 < .0001
History of head injury 29.8 21.9 27.2 .13 .09
Regular aspirin use 27.5 24.2 33.1 .07 .84
History of heavy drinking 14.8 24.2 27.6 < .0001 < .0001
History of cardiovascular disease 12.2 7.7 31.1 < .0001 < .0001
Gunfire exposure in past year 9.5 10.5 8.6 .79 .47
Loud job in past year 8.2 6.1 7.5 .69 .0325
History of otosclerosis 0.3 0.0 0.0 .53 .52

Mean p-value

Age (years) 65.2 60.6 70.8 < .0001 --
Ethanol consumption (g/wk) 43.1 41.5 53.5 .17 .0047
Serum non-HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) 187.2 191.4 178.4 .0042 .0017
Serum total cholesterol (mg/dL) 240.0 243.4 226.6 < .0001 < .0001
1

Those who participated in any of the four follow-up studies. Excludes 44 participants who did not provide sufficient information to classify tinnitus status upon follow-up.

2

Those without follow-up, but living at the end of the follow-up period.

3

Those without follow-up who had died by the end of the follow-up period.

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