Industrial noise exposure and salivary cortisol in blue collar industrial workers

Noise and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 59, 2012, Pages 184-189

  Behzad Fouladi, D ^a   Nassiri, Parvin ^a   Mohammadreza Monazzam, E ^a   Farahani, Saeed ^b   Hassanzadeh, Gholamreza ^c   Hoseini, Mostafa ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b School of Rehabilitation   (Iran)

^c Yazd School of Medicine   (Iran)

Author keywords

Industrial noise exposure; noise induced stress; salivary cortisol

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INDUSTRY; LEISURE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDUSTRY; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84866668390     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.99894     Document Type: Article

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