Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants of the UK Biobank
Tinnitus presence (N = 192,993) | Tinnitus severity (N = 41,042) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never had tinnitus | Tinitus some of the time | Tinitus a lot of the time | Tinitus all the time | p value | No distress | Mild distress | Moderate distress | Severe distress | p value | |
Prevalence | 78.7% | 10.4% | 3.0% | 7.9% | 29.0% | 48.3% | 19.0% | 3.7% | ||
Demographics | ||||||||||
Sex (% M/F) | 44.2/55.8 | 48.6/51.4 | 53.4/46.6 | 59.5/40.5 | <10−300 | 55.9/44.1 | 48.8/51.2 | 46.9/53.1 | 44.4/55.6 | 10−78 |
Age | 58.1 (87) | 59.7 (8.3) | 60.8 (7.8) | 61.4 (7.3) | <10−300 | 58.9 (6.6) | 59.2 (6.2) | 59.1 (6.5) | 58.5 (6.8) | n.s. |
Hearing health | ||||||||||
Self-reported hearing difficulties | 20.1% | 42.6% | 55.8% | 67.9% | <10−300 | 43.9% | 53.2% | 67.4% | 76.7% | <10−300 |
Self-reported speech-in-noise hearing difficulties | 31.0% | 52.3% | 61.2% | 67.2% | <10−300 | 51.8% | 61.1% | 71.9% | 78.5% | 10−223 |
Speech reception threshold in dB | −6.4 (1.8) | −6.1 (2.1) | −5.9 (2.1) | −5.9 (2.2) | <10−300 | −6.2 (1.9) | − 6.1 (1.9) | −5.9 (2.2) | −5.5 (2.7) | 10−50 |
Hearing aid users | 2.6% | 6.6% | 8.5% | 14.1% | <10−300 | 8.0% | 8.6% | 13.2% | 19.8% | 10−59 |
Cochlear implants | 0.054% | 0.25% | 0.17% | 0.22% | 10−18 | 0.18% | 0.19% | 0.32% | 0.72% | 10−3 |
