Effect of smoking on hearing loss: Quality assessment and meta-analysis

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-144

  Nomura, Kyoko ^a   Nakao, Mutsuhiro ^a   Morimoto, Takeshi ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Meta analysis; Quality score; Smoking; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 8344263986     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.05.011     Document Type: Article

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