effects of cigarette smoking on the evolution of hearing loss caused by industrial noise吸烟对进化工业噪声引起的听力损失.pdfVIP

Vol.2, No.10, 1163-1169 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.210170 Effects of cigarette smoking on the evolution of hearing loss caused by industrial noise 1 1 2 1 Abbate Carmelo *, Giorgianni Concetto , Zirilli Agata , Tringali Maria Antonietta , D’Arrigo Graziella2 1 1 3 , Brecciaroli Renato , Abbate Adriana , Salmaso Luigi 1Department of Social Medicine of Messina University, Section of Occupational Medicine, Messina, Italy; *Corresponding Author: abbatec@unime.it 2Statistics Department, Messina University, Messina, Italy 3Statistics Department, Vicenza University, Vicenza, Italy Received 11 June 2010; revised 6 July 2010; accepted 26 July 2010. ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION The few studies evaluating the changes caused Hearing loss as a result of exposure to noise is one of the by cigarette smoking on hearing loss induced by most frequent pathologies found in workers, and is in- occupational exposure to noise have reached fluenced by a number of parameters, such as intensity of discordant conclusions. The aim of this study is the noise, temporal and spectral patterns, duration of the to investigate the interactions between cigarette exposure and susceptibility factors. Controlling these smoking and occupational exposure to noise as parameters may improve the individual response to noise risk factors in the onset and development of he- and evolution of the damage. aring loss. The study was performed on a sam-