Childhood infections, but not early life growth, influence hearing in the Newcastle thousand families birth cohort at age 14 years

Table 2 Descriptive statistics by sex for all continuous variables

Variable	Male			Female			Total
Average intra-individual hearing threshold (dB HL) at	n	Median	IQR	n	Median	IQR	n	Median	IQR
250Hz	83	4	1,7	64	7	1,11	147	6	1,9
500Hz	83	5	1,10	64	6	3,11	147	5	1,11
1 kHz	83	0	0,1	64	0	0,4	147	0	0,2
2 kHz	83	0	0,1	64	0	0,2	147	0	0,1
3 kHz	83	1	0,5	64	2	0,7	147	1	0,6
4 kHz	83	0	0,1	64	0	0,1	147	0	0,1
6 kHz	83	3	0,6	64	3	0,11	147	3	0,7
8 kHz	83	1	0,3	64	1	0,7	147	1	0,5
Gestational age (weeks)	83	40	40,40	64	40	40,40	147	40	40,40
Standardised birth weight	83	−0.37	−1.0, 0.2	64	0	−0.6, 0.8	147	−0.25	−0.8,0.5
Birth weight (kg)	83	3.4	3.1,3.7	64	3.37	3.1,3.8	147	3.4	3.1,3.7
Total number of ear infections, birth to 13 years	83	0	0,2	64	0	0,1	147	0	0,2

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