Observations on the ABR I-V interval in a clinical sample of elderly patients

ABR I-V interval in elderly patients, analysed by multiple regression analysis, was found to be dependent on hearing threshold slope and sex, while the contribution of age and hearing loss was not significant. Since these results partly disagree with other reports which demonstrate that I-V interval is significantly related to age and hearing threshold, caution is suggested in inferring general conclusions on age effects, if data are drawn from clinical samples.