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M M Saad1, M S Hussein, H M Hammam
1Departments of Audiology and Community Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
Abstract:
This study included 295 workers of Assiut Generation Station (Upper Egypt). Two hundred and twenty-one of the workers were exposed to different levels of noise (80 to 107 dBA) and the remaining 74 were used as a control group. There were no significant differences in risk factors viz age, duration of work, body mass index, weight, height, smoking, and previous work as determined by a questionnaire. The relationship between occupational exposure to noise, the degree of hearing loss and hypertension was determined. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the average hearing threshold levels of the two groups (P<0.01) which were more in those workers exposed to noise than in the control group. The mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures were also statistically significantly different in the two groups (P<0.001) and they were positively correlated (P<0.001) to the percentage of impairment of the whole body at 74 and 6 kHz, and hearing disability at 0.5, 1, 2 and 3 kHz. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that age, noise level and body weight could each be used as a predictor of hypertension. A predictive formula was derived between the amount of hearing loss and blood pressure in the subjects exposed to occupational noise.
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