Effects of Various Extents of High-Frequency Hearing Loss on Speech Recognition and Gap Detection at Low Frequencies in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Table 1

Demographic data for the NH group and HF SNHL subgroups.

Group	Male	Female	Age mean ± SD (yrs)
NH	2	9	45.6 ± 13.5
4 kHz mild	5	6	51.2 ± 8.5
4 kHz moderate	5	5	48.3 ± 5.3
2 kHz mild	3	3	52.0 ± 5.4
2 kHz moderate	3	6	46.4 ± 7.9
2 kHz severe	3	4	52.9 ± 11.3
1 kHz mild	3	4	42.6 ± 8.2
1 kHz moderate	4	5	52.7 ± 13.4
1 kHz severe	3	3	51.0 ± 8.6

NH: normal hearing; SD: standard deviation.