Joint effects of smoking, noise exposure and age on hearing loss

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-53

  Ferrite, Silvia ^a   Santana, V ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age; Hearing loss; Noise induced hearing loss; Occupational noise; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; NOISE POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SMOKING;

EID: 14644418437     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi002     Document Type: Article

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