Table 2.
Comparison of average hearing threshold and hearing loss of patients with different syndrome types (n, %).
| Group | Low frequency | High frequency | Completeness of hearing | Total hearing loss rate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | Severe | Mild | Moderate | Severe | |||
| Wind evil invasion group (n = 61) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 5 (8.19) |
| The liver fire disturbance group (n = 69) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 42 | 27 (39.13)ab |
| Phlegm-fire stagnation group (n = 42) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 18 (42.86)ab |
| Spleen and stomach weakness group (n = 48) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 20 (41.67)ab |
| Kidney essence loss group (n = 92) | 12 | 9 | 4 | 39 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 85 (92.39)a |
| χ2 value | 4.531 | |||||||
| P value | 0.032 | |||||||
Note: compared with the wind evil invasion group, aP < 0.05; compared with the kidney essence loss group, bP < 0.05.