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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2010 Oct;31(5):599–610. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181e40ca7

Table 1.

Number of babies and ears from each test site, broken down by ear, sex, age at first test, number of ears contributing to the MEPA and DP datasets, birth weight, head circumference, birth type, race/ethnicity (as reported by the parents).

Site
UUH & UWMC UUH UWMC
Babies (Count) 324 262 62
Ears (Count) Total 493 395 98
Left ear only 67 50 17
Right ear only 88 79 9
Both ears 169 133 36
Left ears total 236 183 53
Right ears total 257 212 45
Sex (Count) Females 151 120 31
Males 173 142 31
Age (Hours) Range 3 to 102 3 to 96 19 to 102
Mean 29 26 40.6
SD 15.5 13.9 16.9
Median 25 24 38.5
MEPA (Count) Ears for 2kHz tone 483 385 98
Ears for chirp 347 261 86
Both tone and chirp 337 251 86
DP (Count) Pass status 352 263 89
Refer status 141 132 9
Birth Weight (g) Mean 3295 3311 3227
SD 458 434 541
Head Circumference (cm) Mean 34 34 35
SD 1.8 1.8 1.6
Birth Type – Vaginal Total 304 267 37
Birth Type – C-section Total 182 128 54
Birth Type – Other Total 7 0 7
Ethnicity – African American Total 7 3 4
Ethnicity – American Indian
or Alaskan Native
Total 4 4 0
Ethnicity – Asian Total 4 1 3
Ethnicity – Hispanic/Latino Total 149 148 1
Ethnicity – Pacific Islander Total 4 4 0
Ethnicity – White, Non-Hispanic Total 143 126 17
Ethnicity – Undeclared Total 182 109 73