10-Year prospective study of noise exposure and hearing damage among construction workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 643-650

  Seixas, Noah S ^a   Neitzel, Rick ^b   Stover, Bert ^a   Sheppard, Lianne ^a   Feeney, Patrick ^c   Mills, David ^a   Kujawa, Sharon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR REHABILITATIVE AUDITORY RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NOISE INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECREATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865450941     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100578     Document Type: Article

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