Hearing loss in workers exposed to toluene and noise

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1283-1286

  Chang, Shu Ju ^a,b   Chen, Chiou Jong ^c,d   Lien, Chih Hiu ^e   Sung, Fung Chang ^d,e  

^a ALETHEIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adhesive products manufacturing; Pure tone audiometry; Toluene; Work related hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; TOLUENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOISE POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIWAN; WORKER;

ADHESIVES; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DATA COLLECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE;

EID: 33746932901     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8959     Document Type: Article

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