Table 1.
Distribution of participants in study in groups based on number of hearing aids worn at time of response and their better-ear variable pure-tone average (BEA), showing number of participants, number of female participants in parentheses and median age of each group.
| BEA GROUP (dB HL) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 < BEA ≤ 10 | 10 < BEA ≤ 20 | 20 < BEA ≤ 30 | 30 < BEA ≤ 40 | 40 < BEA ≤ 50 | 50 < BEA ≤ 60 | 60 < BEA ≤ 70 | 70 < BEA ≤ 80 | 80 < BEA ≤ 125 | |
| None |
69 (35) 46 yrs |
169 (98) 55 yrs |
144 (65) 60 yrs |
97 (33) 62 yrs |
98 (41) 66 yrs |
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| Unilateral |
88 (38) 66 yrs |
145 (83) 62 yrs |
199 (96) 68 yrs |
145 (73) 66 yrs |
90 (47) 67 yrs |
70 (35) 65 yrs |
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| Bilateral |
26 (13) 66 yrs |
43 (23) 67 yrs |
57 (26) 66 yrs |
54 (31) 66 yrs |
41 (28) 67 yrs |
39 (23) 62 yrs |
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