Altered Brain Activity and Functional Connectivity in Unilateral Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Table 1

Demographic and clinical information of the SSNHL patients and HC individuals.

	SSNHL	HC	value
Number ()	30	30	—
Sex (male/female)	16/14	16/14	—
Age (year)			0.799
BMI (kg/m^2)			0.827
Side of hearing loss (left/right)	13/17	—	—
Hearing loss duration (day)		—	—
PTA of affected ear (dB HL)
Before treatment		—	—
After treatment		—	<0.001
PTA of unaffected ear (dB HL)
Before treatment		—	—
After treatment		—	0.043

All data are presented as the . Data with asterisks were compared with paired-sample Student’s -test methods. BMI: body mass index; PTA: pure-tone average.