Hearing Performance in the Follicular-Luteal Phase of the Menstrual Cycle

Table 1

Mean and standard deviation of physiological audiology tests of twenty healthy female in follicular-luteal phase.

		follicular phase	Luteal phase	follicular phase	Luteal phase	follicular phase	Luteal phase
Subject	N	DPOAEs; (dBspl)	DPOAEs (dBspl)	Hearing thresholds (dBHL); 250 HZ	Hearing thresholds (dBHL); 250 HZ	middle-ear pressure; (dapa)	middle-ear pressure (dapa)
With improvement of hearing performance	4	15 ± 0.65	12 ± 0.30	3.75± 0.21	17.78 ± 0.89	-5 ± 0.17	-110 ± 0.25
Without improvement; of hearing performance	16	10 ± 0.85	10 ± 0.60	12.45 ± 0.45	13.32 ± 0.21	1 ± 0.10	-5 ± 0.15