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Table 7 Association between any level of hearing loss and risk factors

From: Field-testing of a rapid survey method to assess the prevalence and causes of hearing loss in Gao’an, Jiangxi province, China

 

N (%)

Univariate

Multivariate

 

aOR^ (95% CI)

P value

aORb (95% CI)

P value

Age (continuous)

1.12 (1.10, 1.14)

< 0.001

1.11 (1.09, 1.13)

< 0.001

Sex

 Male

533 (39.6)

1.0 (base)

1.0 (base)

 Female

811 (60.3)

0.73 (0.55, 0.97)

0.029

0.68 (0.50, 0.93)

0.016

Highest education

 Less than primary

347 (25.8)

1.0 (base)

  

 Primary

701 (52.2)

0.70 (0.48, 1.02)

0.061

 Secondary

270 (20.1)

0.80 (0.50, 1.29)

0.354

 Post-secondary

26 (1.9)

0.56 (0.14, 1.51)

0.194

Literacy

 Unable to read

358 (26.6)

1.0 (base)

1.0 (base)

 Able to read

986 (73.4)

0.71 (0.50, 0.99)

0.045

0.71 (0.50, 0.99)

0.048

SEP quintile

 1 - poorest

304 (22.7)

1.0 (base)

 2

366 (27.3)

0.84 (0.54, 1.32)

0.670

 3

336 (25.0)

0.92 (0.55, 1.53)

0.742

 4 - richest

336 (25.0)

0.77 (0.45, 1.31)

0.321

Noise exposure

18 (1.3)

1.05 (0.35, 3.13)

0.924

Hypertension

387 (28.8)

0.88 (0.63, 1.23)

0.451

Diabetes

115 (8.6)

0.92 (0.57, 1.46)

0.707

Cancer medication

20 (1.5)

2.68 (0.82, 8.72)

0.099

Trauma

53 (3.9)

1.05 (0.54, 2.06)

0.880

Smoking

 Not at all

1097 (81.6)

1.0 (base)

 Some days

41 (3.1)

0.73 (0.25, 2.10)

0.549

 Every day

206 (15.3)

1.33 (0.84, 2.10)

0.217

HIV

0 (0.0)

Malaria

76 (5.7)

1.68 (1.04, 2.70)

0.034

1.67 (1.08, 2.59)

0.022

TB

11 (0.8)

1.04 (0.31, 3.46)

0.954

Other infectious diseasea

52 (3.8)

1.13 (0.51, 2.49)

0.762

  1. SEP Socioeconomic position, TB Tuberculosis; ameningitis, chicken pox, pneumonia, herpes zoster, syphilis, mumps, measles, aOR Adjusted odds ratio; ^adjusted for age and sex; badjusting for all other variables in the model.