Environmental noise in Beirut, smoking and age are combined risk factors for hearing impairment

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 888-896

  El Zir, E ^a   Mansour, S ^b   Salameh, P ^b   Chahine, R ^b  

^a Zalka and Haykal Hospital   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; BONE CONDUCTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; LEBANON; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 53649103246     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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