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

Table 3 Adjusted ^* regression results: significant associations

Variable	Frequency (Hz)	co-efficient	95% CI	p-value
Sex (reference, male)
	250	2.49	(0.84, 4.15)	0.003
	500	2.01	(0.26, 3.76)	0.024
	1000	1.14	(0.12, 2.17)	0.030
Total number of ear infections, birth to age 13 years
	250	0.43	(0.01, 0.85)	0.045
	500	0.50	(0.06, 0.94)	0.027
Scarlet fever, birth to age 13 years (reference, No)
	3000	5.62	(1.56, 9.74)	0.007
	4000	4.20	(0.75, 7.65)	0.017
	8000	4.43	(0.05, 8.82)	0.048
Bronchitis in first year (reference, No)
	8000	3.09	(0.45, 5.72)	0.022

^*Results adjusted for all other significant associations at the corresponding frequency (i.e. bronchitis is adjusted for scarlet fever only at 8000 Hz, while ear infections are adjusted for sex only at both 250 and 500 Hz).

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