Effects of Coexposure to Noise and Mixture of Organic Solvents on Hearing in Dockyard Workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-38

  Sliwinska Kowalska, Mariola ^a   Zamyslowska Szmytke, Ewa ^a   Szymczak, Wieslaw ^a   Kotylo, Piotr ^a   Fiszer, Marta ^a   Wesolowski, Wiktor ^a   Pawlaczyk Luszczynska, Malgorzata ^a   Bak, Marek ^a   Gajda Szadkowska, Anna ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; LIFESPAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OTOTOXICITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORKER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0347717687     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000105912.29242.5b     Document Type: Article

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