Noise-Induced Hearing Loss – A Preventable Disease? Results of a 10-Year Longitudinal Study of Workers Exposed to Occupational Noise

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss – A Preventable Disease? Results of a 10-Year Longitudinal Study of Workers Exposed to Occupational Noise

Aims: To survey current, Danish industrial noise levels and the use of hearing protection devices (HPD) over a 10-year period and to characterise the association between occupational noise and hearing threshold shift in the same period. Furthermore, the risk of hearing loss among the baseline and th...

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Main Authors: Thomas W Frederiksen, Cecilia H Ramlau-Hansen, Zara A Stokholm, Matias B Grynderup, Åse M Hansen, Jesper Kristiansen, Jesper M Vestergaard, Jens P Bonde, Henrik A Kolstad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Noise and Health
Subjects:
Hearing conservation
noise exposure assessment
noise-induced hearing loss
noise surveillance
occupational noise exposure
Online Access:http://www.noiseandhealth.org/article.asp?issn=1463-1741;year=2017;volume=19;issue=87;spage=103;epage=111;aulast=Frederiksen

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