Table 1.
Study participant characteristics according to self-reported hearing loss (HL) status.
| Characteristic | No HL Col % |
Any HL Col % |
p-value1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male | 40.5 | 57.1 | < .001 |
| Age, mean (SE) | 47.2 (0.062) | 62.6 (0.19) | < .001 |
| Race | < .001 | ||
| White | 83.2 | 91.2 | |
| Black | 10.7 | 4.9 | |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
| Asian | 3.9 | 1.5 | |
| Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
| Multiple races | 1.3 | 1.6 | |
| Education | < .001 | ||
| Less than high school | 12.5 | 16.3 | |
| High school or GED | 30.6 | 35.4 | |
| Some college or university | 25.8 | 24.1 | |
| College/university graduate | 31.1 | 24.3 | |
| Family income | < .001 | ||
| Poor or negative | 9.8 | 10.2 | |
| Near poor | 3.5 | 5.3 | |
| Low income | 11.5 | 14.2 | |
| Middle income | 29.6 | 29.7 | |
| High income | 45.6 | 40.6 | |
| Physical health, mean (SE)2 | 48.9 (0.04) | 41.2 (0.15) | < .001 |
| Mental health, mean (SE)3 | 50.5 (0.03) | 49.2 (0.13) | < .001 |
| Diabetes | 9.6 | 18.4 | < .001 |
| Hypertension | 33.2 | 54.5 | < .001 |
| Angina pectoris | 2.6 | 8.4 | < .001 |
| Coronary heart disease | 4.9 | 14.5 | < .001 |
| Other heart disease | 9.5 | 21.7 | < .001 |
| Myocardial infarction | 3.6 | 10.7 | < .001 |
| Stroke | 3.1 | 9.8 | < .001 |
| Smoker | 17.2 | 17.7 | > .05 |
1
P-value for test of no difference between HL groups, determined using Chi-square test for categorical variables and 2-sided Student’s t-test for continuous variables
2
Physical component summary score of the Short-form 12 version 2 (higher is better)
3
Mental component summary score of the Short-form 12 version 2 (higher is better)