Self-reported tinnitus and ototoxic exposures among deployed australian defence force personnel

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-467

  Kirk, Katherine M ^a   Mcguire, Annabel ^a   Nielsen, Lisa ^a   Cosgrove, Tegan ^a   Mcclintock, Christine ^a   Nasveld, Peter E ^a   Treloar, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; PESTICIDE; SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SMOKE; SMOKING; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; TINNITUS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL HAZARD RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SMOKE; SMOKING; SOLVENTS; TINNITUS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959788272     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00353     Document Type: Article

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