Table 7.
Comparison between oversensitivity to loud sounds and contralateral stapedial reflex thresholds (n = 364).
| Reflex thresholds | <100 dB |
>100 dB |
Absence of reflex |
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oversensitivity to loud sounds | Without complaint | With complaint | Without complaint | With complaint | Without complaint | With complaint | |
| Right | |||||||
| 500 Hz | 156 (90.7%) | 182 (94.8%) | 16 (9.3%) | 10 (5.2%) | – | – | 0.130b |
| 1000 Hz | 160 (93.0%) | 187 (97.4%) | 12 (7.0%) | 5 (2.6%) | – | – | 0.048b |
| 2000 Hz | 158 (91.8%) | 179 (93.2%) | 13 (7.6%) | 13 (6.8%) | 1 (0.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.684a |
| 3000 Hz | 137 (79.7%) | 158 (82.3%) | 31 (18.0%) | 29 (15.1%) | 4 (2.3%) | 5 (2.6%) | 0.766a |
| 4000 Hz | 117 (68.0%) | 122 (63.5%) | 34 (19.8%) | 39 (20.3%) | 21 (12.2%) | 31 (16.2%) | 0.529b |
| Left | |||||||
| 500 Hz | 159 (92.4%) | 183 (95.3%) | 13 (7.6%) | 9 (4.7%) | – | – | 0.251b |
| 1000 Hz | 161 (93.6%) | 183 (95.3%) | 11 (6.4%) | 9 (4.7%) | – | – | 0.475b |
| 2000 Hz | 162 (94.2%) | 175 (91.2%) | 10 (5.8%) | 17 (8.8%) | – | – | 0.269b |
| 3000 Hz | 145 (84.3%) | 152 (79.1%) | 22 (12.8%) | 33 (17.2%) | 5 (2.9%) | 7 (3.7%) | 0.448b |
| 4000 Hz | 112 (65.1%) | 114 (59.4%) | 41 (23.8%) | 52 (27.1%) | 19 (11.1%) | 26 (13.5%) | 0.519b |
a
Fisher's exact test.
b
Chi-squared test. Significant values are highlighted in bold.