Exposure to workplace noise and the risk of cardiovascular disease events and mortality among older adults

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 390-394

  Gopinath, Bamini ^a   Thiagalingam, Aravinda ^a   Teber, Erdahl ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angina; Blue Mountains Hearing Study; Cardiovascular disease; Mortality; Stroke; Workplace noise exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STROKE; WORKPLACE;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 83155175133     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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