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Table 2 Factors associated with acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss (N=365)

From: Predictive factors of acute sensorineural hearing loss in adult Japanese patients for clinical application by primary care doctors: a cross-sectional study

 

Odds ratio [95% confidence interval]

P-value

Age

0.95 [0.92–0.98]

0.004**

Sex

4.14 [1.47–11.60]

0.007**

Body mass index

0.97 [0.85–1.11]

0.72

Hypertension

0.53 [0.10–2.60]

0.43

Haemoglobin A1c

0.15 [0.02–1.01]

0.05

Mental illness

1.75 [0.36–8.25]

0.48

Stress

0.97 [0.69–1.37]

0.88

Brinkman index score

0.99 [0.99–1.00]

0.55

Alcohol consumption

0.83 [0.52–1.34]

0.45

Socioeconomic level

1.15 [0.62–2.11]

0.66

Marital status

2.78 [1.12–6.90]

0.02*

Family history of hearing loss

0.52 [0.11–2.53]

0.42

Tinnitus

0.60 [0.26–1.38]

0.23

Ear fullness

1.16 [0.59–2.29]

0.65

Hyperacusis

3.05 [0.73–12.60]

0.12

Vertigo/dizziness

0.52 [0.20–1.36]

0.18

  1. Null deviance: 226.13 with 364 degrees of freedom
  2. Residual deviance: 165.04 with 346 degrees of freedom
  3. Akaike’s information criterion value: 203.04
  4. Interactions between the parameters are shown in Supplementary Table 5
  5. *P<0.05 **P<0.01