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Can noise cause high blood pressure? Occupational risk in paper industry
A Sancini1, T Caciari1, M V Rosati1
1Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine. "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.
Objectives:
The authors hypothesize cardiovascular effects in paper industry workers exposed to noise.
Materials And Methods:
The study included 72 paper industry workers exposed to noise and two control groups not exposed to noise. The workers completed a questionnaire and underwent a medical examination, measurement of blood pressure, electrocardiogram, blood tests, audiometry and measurement of noise exposure.
Results:
The workers exposed to noise, all hearing impaired, were compared with not exposed and showed: significant increase of mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure values (p<0.001), higher frequency of hypertension, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (p<0.01 and p<0.001) and electrocardiografic abnormalities (p<0.05), significant reduction of blood pressure response in orthostatism (p<0.005).
Conclusions:
Our results suggest that for the workers of the paper industry the noise is an occupational risk factor for cardiovascular effects.
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