Table 1.

Characteristics of the 3 groups of patients studied

	Patients (ATT induced otoxicity)	HBV carriers not on ATT	Controls on ATT
Numbers	69	39	128
Age (years)	39.7 ± 18.3	31.5 ± 21.1	43.8 ± 27.7
Sex M:F	47:22	32:7	44:26
Chronic alcoholism	6	1	5 (8.33%)
Chronic liver disease	7	6	3 (2.34%)
HBV carriers	13	39	0
BMI	18.02 ± 3.40	22.18 ± 3.75	18.50 ± 3.33