An increasing prevalence of heating impairment and associated risk factors over three decades of the Alameda County Study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 440-442

  Wallhagen, Margaret I ^a   Strawbridge, William J ^b   Cohen, Richard D ^b   Kaplan, George A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Human Population Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OTOTOXICITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030611899     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.3.440     Document Type: Article

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