Audiological findings in workers exposed to styrene alone or in concert with noise

Noise and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 45-57

  Johnson, Ann Christin ^a,b   Morata, Thais C ^c   Lindblad, Ann Cathrine ^a   Nylën, Per R ^b   Svensson, Eva B ^a,b   Krieg, Edward ^c   Aksentijevic, Aleksandar ^d   Prasher, Deepak ^e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical response audiometry; Hearing loss; Noise; Otoacoustic emissions; Sensitized speech tests; Solvents

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER; STYRENE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 34250712469     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.32467     Document Type: Article

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