Surveillance of hearing loss among older construction and trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 348-358

  Dement, John ^a   Ringen, Knut ^b   Welch, Laura ^b   Bingham, Eula ^c   Quinn, Patricia ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The Center for Construction Research and Training   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Construction; DOE; Hanford; Hearing loss; Noise; Oak Ridge; Savannah River; Surveillance; Trades

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27744596134     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20217     Document Type: Article

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