Table 3.

Patients’ characteristics according to the presence of wet or dry earwax

Characteristic	Wet earwax (n = 27)	Dry earwax (n = 26)	P-valuea)
Family history of hidradenitis suppurativa			< 0.001
Yes	14	2
No/unknown	13	24
Affected area			< 0.01
Buttocks only	2	13
Other sitesb)	25	13

Values are presented as number.

^a)These values were obtained using the chi-square test;

^b)Details of the other sites are described in the Methods section. Six of these patients experienced hidradenitis suppurativa on their buttocks as well.