Table 3.
Mean high frequency PTA and median cVEMP amplitude by medical comorbidities
| Characteristics | N=50 N (%) |
High frequency PTA | N=51 N (%) |
cVEMP amplitude | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dB | p-value | µV | p-value | |||
| DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS | ||||||
| Age | 0.001 | < 0.0001 | ||||
| 70–80 | 39 (78%) | 59.3 | 40 (78%) | 0.92 | ||
| > 80 | 11 (22%) | 74.5 | 11 (22%) | 0.09 | ||
| Gender | < 0.0001 | 0.634 | ||||
| Male | 25 (50%) | 71.5 | 25 (49%) | 0.70 | ||
| Female | 25 (50%) | 53.8 | 26 (51%) | 0.85 | ||
| Race | 0.003 | 0.929 | ||||
| White | 45 (90%) | 64.5 | 45 (88%) | 0.81 | ||
| Black | 5 (10%) | 45.6 | 6 (12%) | 0.70 | ||
| Education | 0.255 | 0.354 | ||||
| High school or less | 16 (32%) | 65.8 | 17 (33%) | 0.84 | ||
| More than high school | 34 (68%) | 61.1 | 34 (66%) | 0.73 | ||
| MEDICAL COMORBIDITIES | ||||||
| Smoking | 0.033 | 0.028 | ||||
| Nonsmoker | 26 (52%) | 58.4 | 26 (51%) | 0.61 | ||
| < 20 packyears | 10 (20%) | 46.7 | 11 (22%) | 1.25 | ||
| ≥ 20 packyears | 14 (28%) | 57.8 | 14 (27%) | 0.70 | ||
| Hypertension | 0.764 | 0.451 | ||||
| No | 19 (38%) | 63.4 | 19 (37%) | 0.98 | ||
| Yes | 31 (62%) | 62.2 | 32 (63%) | 0.70 | ||
| Noise exposure1 | ||||||
| No | 37 (74%) | 60.5 | 0.010 | 38 (76%) | 0.86 | 0.004 |
| Yes | 6 (12%) | 75.6 | 6 (12%) | 0.00 | ||
1
Data missing in 7 participants