Effect of cigarette smoking on noise-induced hearing loss in workers exposed to occupational noise in China

Noise and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 62, 2013, Pages 67-72

  Tao, Liyuan ^a   Davis, Robert ^b   Heyer, Nicholas ^c   Yang, Qiuling ^d   Qiu, Wei ^d   Zhu, Liangliang ^b   Li, Nan ^d   Zhang, Hua ^a   Zeng, Lin ^a   Zhao, Yiming ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Dongfeng Institution of Occupational Disease Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; hearing loss; occupational noise exposure study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE INJURY; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; SMOKING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875706756     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.107159     Document Type: Article

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