Is Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Associated with Hearing Loss and Cochlear Dysfunction? A Prospective Case-Control Study.

Diagnostics (Basel) · 2026 · PMC12984418 · PMID 41828043

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.067so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

9.5%), although this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.067).

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Regarding severity classification, WHO grade distribution based on the better ear showed a trend toward worse categories in MacTel2 ( p = 0.077), whereas the distribution based on the worse ear differed significantly between groups ( p = 0.027), driven by a higher proportion of moderate hearing loss in the MacTel2 cohort.

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