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High-frequency hearing loss, occupational noise exposure and hypertension: a cross-sectional study in male workers

BACKGROUND: The association between occupational noise exposure and hypertension is inconsistent because of an exposure bias caused by outer-ear measurements of noise levels among workers. This study used hearing loss values (HLVs) measured at 4 kHz and 6 kHz in both ears as a biomarker to investiga...

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Autores principales: Chang, Ta-Yuan, Liu, Chiu-Shong, Huang, Kuei-Hung, Chen, Ren-Yin, Lai, Jim-Shoung, Bao, Bo-Ying
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21518430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-10-35